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* TheBadGuyWins:
** Marvin goads Turner into physically attacking him with racist abuse and stalking, ruining his career. For this, Marvin apparently gets interest from studios and moved to Los Angeles.
** [[spoiler:Marchinko kills Marvin, is close to killing Sarah, and gets away with everything.]]


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* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The serial killer and predator is Lisa Marchinko.]]
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* BigApplesauce: New York City is portrayed as a seething hell scape of police corruption and sadistic, unsolved serial murder.

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* BigApplesauce: TheBigRottenApple: New York City is portrayed as a seething hell scape hellscape of police corruption and sadistic, unsolved serial murder.



* SoullessBedroom: When Marvin breaks into [[spoiler:Lisa Marchinko's]] house at the end of the novella, he's disturbed to see how clean and ordered but unfurnished [[spoiler:her]] house is. [[spoiler:Her]] bedroom is the biggest offender, containing only [[spoiler:her]] clothes and nothing personal at all, to the point where he can't even see the point in trashing it. He goes downstairs and learns that [[spoiler:she is the Serial Killer who has been sexually torturing and murdering women.]]

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* SoullessBedroom: When Marvin breaks into [[spoiler:Lisa Marchinko's]] house at the end of the novella, he's disturbed to see how clean and ordered but unfurnished [[spoiler:her]] the house is. [[spoiler:Her]] The bedroom is the biggest offender, containing only [[spoiler:her]] the occupant's clothes and nothing personal at all, to the point where he can't even see the point in trashing it. He goes downstairs and learns that [[spoiler:she is the Serial Killer who has been sexually torturing and murdering women.]]
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* BunkerWoman: Sarah Hall, and all the killer's victims before her.
* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler:Marchinko is a serial rapist and murderer of other women.]]


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* TortureCellar: The titular basement.
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* SoullessBedroom: When Marvin breaks into [[spoiler:Lisa Marchinko's]] house at the end of the novella, he's disturbed to see how clean and ordered but unfurnished [[spoiler:her]] house is. [[spoiler:Her]] bedroom is the biggest offender, containing only [[spoiler:her]] clothes and nothing personal at all, to the point where he can't even see the point in trashing it. He goes downstairs and learns that [[spoiler:she is the Serial Killer who has been sexually torturing and murdering women.]]
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The story is divided between Marvin (first person) and the SerialKiller (second person).

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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The story is divided between Marvin (first person) and the SerialKiller (second person).person), who may or may not be one person. [[spoiler:They're not.]]
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* BigApplesauce: New York City is portrayed as a seething hell scape of police corruption and sadistic, unsolved serial murder.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The story is divided between Marvin (first person) and the SerialKiller (second person).
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In [[BigApplesauce New York City]], unsuccessful writer Marvin Waller comes under suspicion of being a SerialKiller. A 2011 novella by Stephen Leather.

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In [[BigApplesauce New York City]], an unsuccessful writer scriptwriter, Marvin Waller Waller, comes under suspicion of being a SerialKiller. A 2011 novella by Stephen Leather.
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In [[BigApplesauce New York City]], unsuccessful writer Marvin Waller comes under suspicion of being a SerialKiller. A 2011 novella by Stephen Leather.

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