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* NoodleIncident: Campion and Thos. T. Knapp's previous times working together.
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* TheUnreveal: Campion's identity; subverted when in "The Crime at Black Dudley" Abbershaw thinks he's finally figured out who Campion is, then uses the name to try to shock Campion, but it's just another of Campion's aliases.
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* HeroicBsod: Campion has a mild case of this after discovering he's not as good as he'd like to think [[spoiler: i.e. seriously contemplating pointing the authorities toward his client so he could steal the man's wife]] but [[HesBack he's brought back to himself]] in the next book via LoveRedeems.
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* HeroicBsod: Campion has a mild case of this and JadeColoredGlasses for about a book and a half after discovering he's not as good as he'd like to think seriously contemplating ignoring his ideals [[spoiler: i.e. seriously contemplating pointing the authorities toward his client so he could steal the man's wife]] but [[HesBack he's brought back to himself]] in the next book via LoveRedeems.
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* HeroicBsod: Campion has a mild case of this after discovering he's not as good as he'd like to think [[spoiler: i.e. seriously contemplating pointing the authorities toward his client so he could steal the man's wife]] but [[HesBack he's brought back to himself]] in the next book via LoveRedeems.
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* BigDamnHeroes: In [[spoiler: "The Crime at Black Dudley"]] Guffy Randall and The Hunt, of all things
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Canon Avril
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** Also [[spoiler: Cousin George]] in "Police at the Funeral"
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* MacGuffinGuardian: Is the guardian of the Gyrth Chalice real, or just a legend and a set of coincidences? It's left up to the reader to decide...
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* MacGuffinGuardian: Is the guardian of the Gyrth Chalice real, or just a legend and a set of coincidences? It's left up to the reader you to decide...
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Campion and Lugg.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Campion and Lugg. If they're not insulting eachother, something's wrong...
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* VigilanteExecution: In "The Crime at Black Dudley" and in "Flowers for the Judge".
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* CoolOldGuy: Campion becomes one of these.
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* OlderSidekick: Lugg
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* FramesOfReference: Campion purposely wears overly large spectacles to emphasize his ObfuscatingStupidity
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Well, he gets one eventually (or she gets him, perhaps more appropriately), but before then any of the women Campion's interested end up falling in love with one of Campion's [[TheLancer friends/clients]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Well, he gets one eventually (or she gets him, perhaps more appropriately), but before then any of the women Campion's interested in end up falling in love with one of Campion's [[TheLancer friends/clients]]
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* BattleButler: Lugg and Scatty Williams.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Campion tends to do this in a comedic manner. Needless to say, whatever BigBad is in the story does not usually take this [[ColdBloodedTorture well]]
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Campion tends to do this in a comedic manner. Needless to say, whatever BigBad is in the story [[ColdBloodedTorture does not usually take this [[ColdBloodedTorture well]]well]]
* EverybodySmokes
* EverybodySmokes
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*** The only exception to the 'rule' was in the book "Traitor's Purse" in which he is a secret agent during World War II.
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* KillItWithFire: How the BigBad in "The Crime at Black Dudley" intends to kill his hostages, and how Campion deals with the menace in [[spoiler: "Traitor's Purse"]]
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: Campion tends to do this in a comedic manner. Needless to say, whatever BigBad is in the story does not usually take this [[ColdBloodedTorture well]]
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Campion tends to do this in a comedic manner. Needless to say, whatever BigBad is in the story does not usually take this [[ColdBloodedTorture well]]
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** Campion also refers to terms himself as a 'universal uncle'.uncle' making himself honorary uncle to everyone.
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* SympatheticMurderer: In "The Crime at Black Dudley" (though this mostly fails due to lack of characterization) and in "Flowers for the Judge" (where it actually does work for the reader).
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* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: In "Crime at Black Dudley" and in "Flowers for the Judge" (by a SympatheticMurderer).
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* SympatheticMurderer: In "The Crime at Black Dudley" (though this mostly fails due to lack of characterization) and in "Flowers for the Judge" (where it actually does work for the reader).
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* VigilanteExecution: In "The Crime at Black Dudley" and in "Flowers for the Judge".
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* KarmicDeath: Happens to many of the villains.
* KarmicDeath: Happens to many of the villains.
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* HairpinLockpick: Campion employs this several times (usually borrowing one from a female companion), though he prefers his real lockpicking tools.
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* ReformedCriminal: LuggLugg used to be a catburglar.
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* GentlemanDetective: Campion, obviously.* IHaveManyNames - Campion has used many pseudonyms including 'Christopher Twelvetrees' and 'Orlando'. Even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (In the books, it's revealed that his first name is Rudolph.)
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* GentlemanDetective: Campion, obviously.obviously.
* IHaveManyNames - Campion has used many pseudonyms including 'Christopher Twelvetrees' and 'Orlando'. Even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (In the books, it's revealed that his first name is Rudolph.)
* IHaveManyNames - Campion has used many pseudonyms including 'Christopher Twelvetrees' and 'Orlando'. Even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (In the books, it's revealed that his first name is Rudolph.)
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* GentlemanDetective: Campion, obviously.
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* IHaveManyNames - Campion has used many pseudonyms including 'Christopher Twelvetrees' and 'Orlando'. Even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (In the books, it's revealed that his first name is Rudolph.)
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* GentlemanDetective: Campion, obviously.
obviously.* IHaveManyNames - Campion has used many pseudonyms including 'Christopher Twelvetrees' and 'Orlando'. Even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (In the books, it's revealed that his first name is Rudolph.)
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* WeirdAside: Campion, Amanda, Whippet, and the occassional old woman tend to do these.
* WeirdAside: Campion, Amanda, Whippet, and the occassional old woman tend to do these.
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* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Campion (in his sixties) having to fight a murderer who is not only nearly half his age, but a master of martial arts.
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* GenreAdultery: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror (though because it's left ambiguously YourMileageMayVary).
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* LifeImitatesArt: After World War II, Margery Allingham was told that the diabolical Nazi plan that Campion has to stop in "Traitor's Purse" was something that the Nazis had actually tried to do.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Campion decides to give up his adventurous carreer to have a 'respectable' aristocratic position so he can provide a steady income for his family, but just as he is about to officially accept the position a mystery presents itself and he happily declines the position. Campion, Amanda, Lugg, AndTheFandomRejoiced.
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* UnsuspectinglySoused: Campion has this done to him when BluffingTheMurderer he accepts a dinner invitation and is manipulated by the MagnificentBastard into having a cocktail. The cocktail however reacts with the rare wine the murderer had specially ordered at the restaurant, and causes Campion to become soused. Fortunately Campion had asked (in the books) Inspector Oates for a few plain clothes policemen to watch over him, otherwise the murderer would have gotten away with pushing the inebriated Campion beneath a train.
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* UnsuspectinglySoused: Campion has this done to him when BluffingTheMurderer (Type 3) he accepts a dinner invitation and is manipulated by the MagnificentBastard into having a cocktail. The cocktail however reacts with the rare wine the murderer had specially ordered at the restaurant, and causes Campion to become soused. Fortunately Campion had asked (in the books) Inspector Oates for a few plain clothes policemen to watch over him, otherwise the murderer would have gotten away with pushing the inebriated Campion beneath a train.
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* UnsuspectedSousing: Campion has this done to him when BluffingTheMurderer he accepts a dinner invitation and is manipulated by the MagnificentBastard into having a cocktail. The cocktail however reacts with the rare wine the murderer had specially ordered at the restaurant, and causes Campion to become soused. Fortunately Campion had asked (in the books) Inspector Oates for a few plain clothes policemen to watch over him, otherwise the murderer would have gotten away with pushing the inebriated Campion beneath a train.
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* UnsuspectedSousing: UnsuspectinglySoused: Campion has this done to him when BluffingTheMurderer he accepts a dinner invitation and is manipulated by the MagnificentBastard into having a cocktail. The cocktail however reacts with the rare wine the murderer had specially ordered at the restaurant, and causes Campion to become soused. Fortunately Campion had asked (in the books) Inspector Oates for a few plain clothes policemen to watch over him, otherwise the murderer would have gotten away with pushing the inebriated Campion beneath a train.
