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* PolicePsychic: The titular character is a {{seer}} and {{psychometry}} user who becomes an AmateurSleuth after a chance encounter with a policeman, Detective Pruden. Although she does utilize her psychic abilities to help him out, her greatest gift, as stated on the back of the book, is her common sense.
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* PolicePsychic: The titular character is a {{seer}} {{seer|s}} and {{psychometry}} user who becomes an AmateurSleuth after a chance encounter with a policeman, Detective Pruden. Although she does utilize her psychic abilities to help him out, her greatest gift, as stated on the back of the book, is her common sense.
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* PolicePsychic: The titular character is a {{seer}} and {{psychometry}} user who becomes an AmateurSleuth after a chance encounter with a policeman, Detective Pruden. Although she does utilize her psychic abilities to help him out, her greatest gift, as stated on the back of the book, is her common sense.
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''The Clairvoyant Countess'' and its sequel ''Kaleidoscope'' are novels by Creator/DorothyGilman about Madame Karitska, a psychic somewhere between middle and old age, once a refugee from the Russian Revolution, technically a countess, who befriends a policeman, Lt. Pruden, and helps him in his investigations.
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''The Clairvoyant Countess'' and its sequel ''Kaleidoscope'' are novels by Creator/DorothyGilman about MadameKaritska, Karitska.
The titular protagonist is a psychic somewhere between middle and old age, once a refugee from the Russian Revolution, and only technically acountess, who countess. She befriends a policeman, Lt. Pruden, and helps him in his investigations.
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''The Clairvoyant Countess'' and its sequel ''Kaleidoscope'' are novels by Creator/DorothyGilman about Madame
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* HeroicRussianEmigre: Madame Karitska.
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* WarRefugees: Madame Karitska's BackStoryKaritska was originally a refugee from the Russian Revolution, many decades before the story.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: downplayed.
The Big Bad downplays it; when asked whether he used his powers for good or for evil, he chuckles and calls it a conventional question.
* AffablyEvil:[[spoiler: Zoehfeld]]Mr. Faber-Jones is stunned, after [[spoiler:Zoehfeld]]'s arrest, that so charming a person could be [[spoiler:a murderer and spy]].
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* TheBluebeard: Though his motive was very like the BlackWidow
* BlueBlood: She calls herself "Madame" rather than Countess because she doesn't really care.
* ChekhovsGunman: Foretold by Madame Karitska, rather than appearing herself.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One way her powers manifest: it leads to her finding her current location.
* DrivenToSuicide: Mazda Lorvale
* BlueBlood: She calls herself "Madame" rather than Countess because she doesn't really care.
* ChekhovsGunman: Foretold by Madame Karitska, rather than appearing herself.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One way her powers manifest: it leads to her finding her current location.
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* TheBluebeard: Though his motive was very like the BlackWidow
BlackWidow. [[spoiler:The stepfather murdered his stepdaughter after her mother had left her all the money; it turned out he had murdered the mother as well, and a fair number of earlier brides.]]
* BlueBlood: Madame Karitska is technically a countess. Given that she was a small child when her family escaped the Russian Revolution, it doesn't mean much to her. She calls herself "Madame" rather than Countess because she doesn't really care.
* ChekhovsGunman: Foretold by Madame Karitska, rather than appearingherself.
herself. Madame Karitska does a reading on Lt. Pruden and tells him that he will be married within fifteen months, to a woman with long, very pale blond hair and considerable psychic ability. When, later in the book, he is not able to talk straight upon meeting a woman with long, very pale blond hair and considerable psychic ability, he doesn't get it, but Madame Karitska smiles upon him and assures him that it is a very good thing.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One wayher Madame Karitska's powers manifest: it manifest. It leads to her finding her current location.
location; she dreams of a brownstone with a sign in a window: "Madame Karitska, Readings." When she happens on the brownstone with a sign "Apartment for Rent", the landlord is suspicious because he had put up the sign five minutes earlier, but she gets her office.
* DrivenToSuicide: MazdaLorvaleLorvale commits suicide in a mental institution.
* BlueBlood: Madame Karitska is technically a countess. Given that she was a small child when her family escaped the Russian Revolution, it doesn't mean much to her. She calls herself "Madame" rather than Countess because she doesn't really care.
* ChekhovsGunman: Foretold by Madame Karitska, rather than appearing
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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lt. Pruden discovers heroin.
* GrudgingThankYou: Joe Painter, after she stops him from shoplifting.
* IdentificationByDentalRecords: Not used after an accident until she turns up evidence.
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Exploited, and then disposed of.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The countess's background; she has settled down to working for her living.
* IndianBurialGround: She warns against disturbing this.
* LonelyFuneral: Mazda Lorvale's
* TheMafia: The Syndicate
* GrudgingThankYou: Joe Painter, after she stops him from shoplifting.
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* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Exploited, and then disposed of.
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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lt. Pruden discovers heroin.
heroin by this method.
* GrudgingThankYou: Joe Painter, aftershe Madame Karitska stops him from shoplifting.
shoplifting and getting caught.
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* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Exploited, and then disposed of.
When Madame Karitska gets enough evidence, Lt. Pruden has a grave exhumed to double-check with this.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The countess'sbackground; background. Her parents lost their wealth fleeing the Russian Revolution; she has settled down to working for her living.
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Lorvale's funeral had no mourners.
* TheMafia:The SyndicateMadame Karitska finds some things that lead Lt. Prudens and the police to realize that the Syndicate is moving in.
* MindOverMatter: Madame Karitska, teaching two psychics, has them turn pages in a book.
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* MindOverMatter: Madame Karitska, teaching two psychics, has them turn pages in a book.
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* PetTheDog: She sends Lt. Pruden away to deal with an appointment: a small boy who has lost his kitten.
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'''''The Clairvoyant Countess''''' and its sequel ''Kaleidoscope'' are novels by Creator/DorothyGilman about Madame Karitska, a middle-aged psychic, psychic somewhere between middle and old age, once a refugee from the Russian Revolution, technically a countess, who befriends a policeman, Lt. Pruden, and helps him in his investigations.
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* TalkAboutTheWeather: After Mr. Faber-Jones learns about his doctor, he struck by how different the conversation is.
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* IndianBurialGround: She warns against disturbing this.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Mr. Faber-Jones, after his wife leaves him.
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* DueToTheDead: Flowers on Mazda Lorvale's grave
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Gavin screams and collapses at this time, after she prevented his being sent home.
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'''''The Clairvoyant Countess''''' and its sequel ''Kaleidoscope'' are novels by Creator/DorothyGilman about Madame Karitska, a middle-aged psychic, once a refugee from the Russian Revolution, technically a countess, who befriends a policeman policeman, Lt. Pruden, and helps him in his investigations.
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'''''The Clairvoyant Countess''''' and its sequel ''Kaleidoscope'' are novels by Creator/DorothyGilman about Madame Karitska, a middle-aged psychic, once a refugee from the Russian Revolution, technically a countess, who befriends a policeman and helps him in his investigations.
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* BadHumorTruck: In ''The Clairvoyant Countess'' there is a significant ice cream truck company run by a very scary bad guy.
* BlueBlood: She calls herself "Madame" rather than Countess because she doesn't really care.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One way her powers manifest: it leads to her finding her current location.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The countess's background in ''The Clairvoyant Countess''; she has settled down to working for her living.
* PaterFamilicide: One of the other psychics in ''The Clairvoyant Countess'' is rescued from one of these.
* PsychicPowers: ''The Clairvoyant Countess'', not surprisingly.
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* BadHumorTruck: In ''The Clairvoyant Countess'' there is a significant ice cream truck company run by a very scary bad guy.
* BlueBlood: She calls herself "Madame" rather than Countess because she doesn't really care.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One way her powers manifest: it leads to her finding her current location.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The countess's background in ''The Clairvoyant Countess''; she has settled down to working for her living.
* PaterFamilicide: One of the other psychics in ''The Clairvoyant Countess'' is rescued from one of these.
* PsychicPowers: ''The Clairvoyant Countess'', not surprisingly.
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