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* FalseRapeAccusation: Rose Tate threatens this when Garrett refuses to conspire with her against Denny's heir, but Garrett retorts that he can afford a magical truthsaying to debunk any such claim.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Garrett manage to recover [[spoiler: Kayean Kronk and save her from vampirism but only after many harrowing battles as well as the death of both her brother as well as husband. Garett uses his newfound wealth to buy a mansion for him and Dead Man while Morley uses Kayean's brother to kill his creditors.]]
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Rose and Tinnie plan to kill Kayean as well as frustrate Garrett's attempts to find her via violence but both get nowhere. Garrett even starts dating the latter.
* InterspeciesRomance: Very common with Denny Tate, a gnome, dating Kayean, a human. Garrett, a human, eventually ends up with Tinnie.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Kayean Kronk [[spoiler: willingly followed her husband and brother into vampirism.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Very common with Denny Tate, a gnome, dating Kayean, a human. Garrett, a human, eventually ends up with Tinnie.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Kayean Kronk [[spoiler: willingly followed her husband and brother into vampirism.]]
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An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners. Garrett soon finds himself offered bribes, threats, and combinations of the two to leave the case alone.
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An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk.
This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners. Garrett soon finds himself offered bribes, threats, and combinations of the two to leave the casealone.
alone. Unfortunately, Garrett refuses to do so as a matter of professional pride.
This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners. Garrett soon finds himself offered bribes, threats, and combinations of the two to leave the case
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* CorruptChurch: Played with. The local priest, Father Rhyne, is honest and good natured but the Sahir is an undercover Venageti agent.
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* DamselInDistress: Kayean Kront's rescue forms the basis of the latter third of the book. [[spoiler: They succeed but not without significant cost.]]
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Despite Morley's predictions this will happen once Garrett meets Kayean Kronk [[spoiler: he refuses to ever visit her as he's creeped out by her near-brush with vampirism.]]
* FantasticNoir: The story starts with the premise of Garrett being expected to execute the will of a friend before turning into a monster hunt.
* FantasticRacism: Played straight and subverted. The grolls suffer from racism by numerous individuals they meet along the way but everyone, including Garrett, considers vampires to be pure evil by their nature (and they're right).
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Despite Morley's predictions this will happen once Garrett meets Kayean Kronk [[spoiler: he refuses to ever visit her as he's creeped out by her near-brush with vampirism.]]
* FantasticNoir: The story starts with the premise of Garrett being expected to execute the will of a friend before turning into a monster hunt.
* FantasticRacism: Played straight and subverted. The grolls suffer from racism by numerous individuals they meet along the way but everyone, including Garrett, considers vampires to be pure evil by their nature (and they're right).
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''Sweet Silver Blues'' is the first book of the Literature/GarrettPI books by Creator/GlenCook. It is a FantasticNoir series set in a HighFantasy Medieval world. Garrett is a private investigator, former Marine, and KnightInSourArmor working to solve a variety of cases with all the witches as well as other creatures about him.
An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners.
An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners.
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''Sweet Silver Blues'' is the first book of the Literature/GarrettPI books by Creator/GlenCook. It is a FantasticNoir series set in a HighFantasy Medieval world. Garrett is a private investigator, former Marine, and KnightInSourArmor working to solve a variety of cases with all the witches as well as other creatures about him.
An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former businesspartners.
partners. Garrett soon finds himself offered bribes, threats, and combinations of the two to leave the case alone.
An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business
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The book successfully inverts the formula of many UrbanFantasy novels by placing a more or less mundane PrivateInvestigator in a world full of supernatural creatures as well as MedievalStasis setting.
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The book is followed by ''Literature/BitterGoldHearts''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:He's the one in the trench coat.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:He's the one in the trench coat.]]
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''Sweet Silver Blues'' is the first book of the Literature/GarrettPI books by Creator/GlenCook. It is a FantasticNoir series set in a HighFantasy Medieval world. Garrett is a private investigator, former Marine, and KnightInSourArmor working to solve a variety of cases with all the witches as well as other creatures about him.
An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners.
Journeying to the war ravaged region of Cantard, Denny has to find the mysterious Kayean Kronk and why no one is willing to speak of her even among immediate family. Garrett's only allies are his vegetarian assassin friend, Morley, his undead business partner Dead Man, and two very smelly grolls.
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''Sweet Silver Blues'' contains the following tropes:
* AlienCatnip: Morley bribes a tribe of brownies with rock candy to get them to spy for him. The brownies are later seen lying all over the graveyard, giggling and stoned to the gills on sugar.
* BittersweetEnding: The first book in the series has shades of this and ends with Garrett [[DrowningmySorrows Drowning his sorrows.]]
* BoomHeadshot: A female vampire is shot in the forehead by a crossbow bolt, which doesn't finish her off but does scramble her brains and leave her thrashing helplessly on the cave floor. Garrett himself pegs a shapeshifter this way in ''Faded Steel Heat'', but it too survives, recovering rapidly once its malleable flesh expels the projectile.
* CartwrightCurse: Morley warns Garrett in ''Sweet Silver Blues'' that this trope seems to apply to Kayean Kronk.
* ContinuityNod: The stunt Morley pulls at the end [[spoiler: with the vampire in a crate]] gets referenced in several later novels, up to and including ''Wicked Bronze Ambition'', thirteen books and ''sixteen real years'' later.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The first book in the series shows several characters holding submachineguns, and has a light switch visible on a wall. The series takes place in a high fantasy world with full-on MedievalStasis.
* GenderBlenderName: Doris and Marsha. Because they're eighteen-foot-tall grolls, nobody's had the nerve to point it out to them.
* MissionControl: The Major ends up doing this to try to rid Cantard of its [[spoiler: vampire problem.]]
* ShoutOut: After the end, the continuing household dynamic of Garrett (Archie Goodwin), the Dead Man (Nero Wolfe) and Dean (Fritz Brenner) is set up.
* TheStoner: Barbera, an ex-army loser whom Vasco's crew sic on Garrett in ''Sweet Silver Blues''. Licks, a musician whom Saucerhead briefly works for is also a heavy weed user.
* UnusualEuphemism: Some slang terms for interspecies sexual practices are mentioned.
* {{Unicorn}}: ''Sweet Silver Blues'' inverts their benign image. Our heroes are barely able to survive a stampede of them and they fight to the death for little to no reason.
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An old friend, gnomish veteran Denny Tate, dies in an accident and names Garrett the executor of his estate. Denny has amassed a vast fortune of one hundred thousand marks in silver and offers 10% of the fee to Garrett to deliver it to his ex-lover, Kayean Kronk. This does not sit well with Denny's sister, Rose, nor with his former business partners.
Journeying to the war ravaged region of Cantard, Denny has to find the mysterious Kayean Kronk and why no one is willing to speak of her even among immediate family. Garrett's only allies are his vegetarian assassin friend, Morley, his undead business partner Dead Man, and two very smelly grolls.
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''Sweet Silver Blues'' contains the following tropes:
* AlienCatnip: Morley bribes a tribe of brownies with rock candy to get them to spy for him. The brownies are later seen lying all over the graveyard, giggling and stoned to the gills on sugar.
* BittersweetEnding: The first book in the series has shades of this and ends with Garrett [[DrowningmySorrows Drowning his sorrows.]]
* BoomHeadshot: A female vampire is shot in the forehead by a crossbow bolt, which doesn't finish her off but does scramble her brains and leave her thrashing helplessly on the cave floor. Garrett himself pegs a shapeshifter this way in ''Faded Steel Heat'', but it too survives, recovering rapidly once its malleable flesh expels the projectile.
* CartwrightCurse: Morley warns Garrett in ''Sweet Silver Blues'' that this trope seems to apply to Kayean Kronk.
* ContinuityNod: The stunt Morley pulls at the end [[spoiler: with the vampire in a crate]] gets referenced in several later novels, up to and including ''Wicked Bronze Ambition'', thirteen books and ''sixteen real years'' later.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The first book in the series shows several characters holding submachineguns, and has a light switch visible on a wall. The series takes place in a high fantasy world with full-on MedievalStasis.
* GenderBlenderName: Doris and Marsha. Because they're eighteen-foot-tall grolls, nobody's had the nerve to point it out to them.
* MissionControl: The Major ends up doing this to try to rid Cantard of its [[spoiler: vampire problem.]]
* ShoutOut: After the end, the continuing household dynamic of Garrett (Archie Goodwin), the Dead Man (Nero Wolfe) and Dean (Fritz Brenner) is set up.
* TheStoner: Barbera, an ex-army loser whom Vasco's crew sic on Garrett in ''Sweet Silver Blues''. Licks, a musician whom Saucerhead briefly works for is also a heavy weed user.
* UnusualEuphemism: Some slang terms for interspecies sexual practices are mentioned.
* {{Unicorn}}: ''Sweet Silver Blues'' inverts their benign image. Our heroes are barely able to survive a stampede of them and they fight to the death for little to no reason.
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