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* HotScientist: The cops questioning Nora perk up and try to be suave with her when they are shocked to see a rather attractive young woman after the stream of "geek" types they've been interviewing.
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Not to be confused with the horror anthology television series ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities''.
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*ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Antoine Leng successfully developed a chemical formula that extended his life by at least a century; he wanted to give himself enough time to perfect a method of committing global genocide and experimented with a variety of deadly poisons and delivery systems. Pendergast remarks on the irony that Leng had the secret all along, but never realized it: all he had to do was reveal that the formula existed, and the world would have torn itself apart trying to gain possession of it.
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*BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: According to Pendergast's great-aunt Cornelia, the French consider ''"May your dearest wish come true"'' to be the direst curse a person can lay on another.
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: While it turns out Leng was able to crack the code to the formula he needed to extend his life, after being played up as the real killer after all this time it turns out he was murdered by Fairhaven shortly before the events of the book started.]]
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* JackTheRipoff: The modern murders are pegged as copycat killings of the original 1880s murders.
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* JackTheRipoff: The modern murders are pegged as copycat killings of the original 1880s murders. [[spoiler: As it turns out, they are, and the copycat killer already murdered the original.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Fairhaven is a relatively minor character for the majority of the novel and after a few encounters with Smithback is all but forgotten as everyone is swept up trying to stop the Surgeon, who is almost entirely expected to be Enoch Leng. Then near the end it turns out that Leng was murdered by Fairhaven in his attempt to gain immorality for himself.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Fairhaven is a relatively minor character for the majority of the novel and after a few encounters with Smithback is all but forgotten as everyone is swept up trying to stop the Surgeon, who is almost entirely expected to be Enoch Leng. Then near the end it turns out that Leng was murdered by Fairhaven in his attempt to gain immorality immortality for himself.]]
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* PutOnABus: It's casually mentioned that Margo and D'Agosta (two of the major players form the previous novels) are in Boston working for a university and upstate writing crime novels, respectively.
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* PutOnABus: It's casually mentioned that Margo and D'Agosta (two of the major players form from the previous novels) are in Boston working for a university and upstate writing crime novels, respectively.
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Fairhaven is a relatively minor character for the majority of the novel and after a few encounters with Smithback is all but forgotten as everyone is swept up trying to stop the Surgeon, who is almost entirely expected to be Enoch Leng. Then near the end it turns out that Leng was murdered by Fairhaven in his attempt to gain immorality for himself.
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Fairhaven is a relatively minor character for the majority of the novel and after a few encounters with Smithback is all but forgotten as everyone is swept up trying to stop the Surgeon, who is almost entirely expected to be Enoch Leng. Then near the end it turns out that Leng was murdered by Fairhaven in his attempt to gain immorality for himself.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Fairhaven is a relatively minor character for the majority of the novel and after a few encounters with Smithback is all but forgotten as everyone is swept up trying to stop the Surgeon, who is almost entirely expected to be Enoch Leng. Then near the end it turns out that Leng was murdered by Fairhaven in his attempt to gain immorality for himself.
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''The Cabinet of Curiosities'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, first published in 2002, and is the third novel in their informal "AgentPendergast" series.
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''The Cabinet of Curiosities'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, first published in 2002, and is the third novel in their informal "AgentPendergast" Literature/AgentPendergast series.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: At a few points in the novel, Pendergast goes into a trace-like state to mentally recreate the scene of the original killings. During one of these, at one point he has a conversation with a girl named Constance who was a relative of one of those killed ... long before he comes to know the real deal in later books of the series]].
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* DescriptionPorn: An entire two page chapter is devoted to describing the antique surgeon's kit in excruciating, loving detail.
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* TurnInYourBadge: O'Shaughnessey is placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conduct. He figures this is just a fancy way to fire him.
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* TurnInYourBadge: O'Shaughnessey is placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conduct. He figures this is just a fancy way to fire him.him.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Pendergast agonizes over what to do with the immortality elixir when he finds it. Keep it to himself? Destroy it? Share it with humanity? In the end [[spoiler: he realizes that no good could come of it's existence and he burns it. However, in the [[MissingEpisode unofficial epilogue]], he's memorized the formula before doing so and goes to pick up the ingredients afterward]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Pendergast agonizes over what to do with the immortality elixir when he finds it. Keep it to himself? Destroy it? Share it with humanity? In the end [[spoiler: he realizes that no good could come of it's existence and he burns it. However, in the [[MissingEpisode unofficial epilogue]], he's memorized the formula before doing so and goes to pick up the ingredients afterward]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Leng, who not only brutally operated on people for his immortality formula, but did so to prolong his life to find a way to ''wipe out humanity''. Fairhaven also falls under this trope to continue his work solely to prolong his own life]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Leng, who not only brutally operated on people for his immortality formula, but did so to prolong his life to find a way to ''wipe out humanity''. Fairhaven also falls under this trope to continue his work solely to prolong his own life]].
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Nora's physical description, character traits and role are almost identical to [[PutOnABus Margo Green]].
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Nora's physical description, character traits and role are almost identical to [[PutOnABus Margo Green]].Green]].
* TurnInYourBadge: O'Shaughnessey is placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conduct. He figures this is just a fancy way to fire him.
* TurnInYourBadge: O'Shaughnessey is placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conduct. He figures this is just a fancy way to fire him.
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* PerfectPoison: [[spoiler: What Leng was truly in search of, and in enough quantities to wipe out humanity.]]
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* PlayingWithSyringes: The Surgeon keeps his victims complacent with shots of paralytic drugs.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: Smithback goes to investigate Leng's old house on his own, expecting to find an empty old house. He finds the surgeon and is captured as Nora and Pendergast figure out where he is and rush to save him.]]
