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* {{Sleepwalking}}: In "The Chameleon's Dish", Frank and Lou's attempts to establish their client's innocence are complicated by the fact that he was found sleepwalking near the BodyOfTheWeek, and that earlier that night he attempted to strangle someone in his sleep.
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* LowSpeedChase: In "The Rascal Cook", the killer flees from Frank and Lou by jumping into a swan pedal boat and pedaling out on to the Avon River. Frank and Lou commandeer another pedal boat and pursue.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "The Rascal Cook", a restaurant is sabotaged when the soup is spiked with syrup of ipecac. Laer, the chef is murdered by being served a poisoned cup of coffee.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "The Rascal Cook", a restaurant is sabotaged when the soup is spiked with syrup of ipecac. Laer, Later, the chef is murdered by being served a poisoned cup of coffee.
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* CouldntFindAPen: In "The Rascal Cook", a poisoned chef collapse in the pantry. He uses his dying strength to dip his finger in some foodstuff and write the word "Sorry" on the wall.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "The Rascal Cook", a restaurant is sabotaged when the soup is spiked with syrup of ipecac. Laer, the chef is murdered by being served a poisoned cup of coffee.
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* CampGay: Sebastian, although so far the evidence for his sexual orientation is only second-hand. He also frequently falls into OnlySaneMan territory when compared to his employers.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: In "The Chameleon's Dish", Lou drinks a cup of tea intended for her client. The tea has been spiked with magic mushrooms and Lou winds up tripping: commenting on the beautiful blues and greens of Frank's face, and talking to fairy she thinks is perched on her hand.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: In "The Chameleon's Dish", Lou drinks a cup of tea intended for her client. The tea has been spiked with magic mushrooms and Lou winds up tripping: commenting on the beautiful blues and greens of Frank's face, and talking to a fairy she thinks is perched on her hand.
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* TeacgerStudentRomance: The VictimOfTheWeek in "The Chameleon's Dish" is a school counselor who was having an affair with one of her students.
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* TeacgerStudentRomance: TeacherStudentRomance: The VictimOfTheWeek in "The Chameleon's Dish" is a school counselor who was having an affair with one of her students.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: In "The Chameleon's Dish", Lou drinks a cup of tea intended for her client. The tea has been spiked with magic mushrooms and Lou winds up tripping: commenting on the beautiful blues and greens of Frank's face, and talking to fairy she thinks is perched on her hand.
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* UndercoverAsLovers: In "The Chameleon's Dish", Frank and Lou go to silent retreat to keep their surveillance on their client for a weekend, only to find their client has booked them in as newlyweds.
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* TeacgerStudentRomance: The VictimOfTheWeek in "The Chameleon's Dish" is a school counselor who was having an affair with one of her students.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: In "The Fairest Show Means Most Deceit", Shakespeare and Hathaway are hired to investigate an employee who is suspected of faking an injury as part of a workers' compensation scam. Later, [[spoiler:the employee uses the fake injury to establish an alibi while she murders her boss]].
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* IHaveYourWife: In "This Promised End", Mr. R and Mr. G uses threats against Peter Quintus' wife to prevent him from going to the police. [[spoiler:It is actually an elaborate scheme engineered by the wife.]]
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* IHaveYourWife: In "This Promised End", Mr. R and Mr. G uses use threats against Peter Quintus' wife to prevent him from going to the police. [[spoiler:It is actually an elaborate scheme engineered by the wife.]]
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* NotableNonSequitur: In "O Brave New World", when the hotel staff are being interviewed after the murder, one of the waitresses complains that a pair of shoes have been stolen from her locker. Guess what later becomes the vital clue Frank uses to crack the case?
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* NotSoFakePropWeapon: In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", someone laces the poison chalice in a production of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' with actual poison in an attempt to kill the actress playing Juliet.
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* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: In "The Fairest Show Means Most Deceit", the team discover that one of their suspects has been visiting a transvestite bar. Sebastian goes in undercover to gain the man's confidence. Averts most of the trope, as the bar is just an ordinary pub whose clientele happens to be men dressed as women.
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* IHaveYourWife: In "This Promised Land", Mr. R and Mr. G uses threats against Peter Quintus' wife to prevent him from going to the police. [[spoiler:It is actually an elaborate scheme engineered by the wife.]]
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* IHaveYourWife: In "This Promised Land", End", Mr. R and Mr. G uses threats against Peter Quintus' wife to prevent him from going to the police. [[spoiler:It is actually an elaborate scheme engineered by the wife.]]
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: "This Promised End" features a pair of extremely polite {{Professional Killer}}s known as Mr. R and Mr. G, who give their targets 24 hours notice of their impending demise to allow them to put their affairs in order and bid goodbye to their families. As their names imply, they take their vocal cues from [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Rosencrantz and Guildenstern]]. [[spoiler:Later subverted as they turn out to be actors employed to throw a scare into their victim.]]
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* IHaveYourWife: In "This Promised Land", Mr. R and Mr. G uses threats against Peter Quintus' wife to prevent him from going to the police. [[spoiler:It is actually an elaborate scheme engineered by the wife.]]
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* WidowedAtTheWedding: "O Brave New World" has Luella Shakespeare's new husband being murdered at their wedding. When the husband is exposed as a ConMan, Lou becomes the chief suspect. She teams with private investigator Frank Hathaway to prove her innocence.
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* CarFu: In "This Promised End", the VictimOfTheWekk is run down and killed in an attempt to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
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* ConMan: The VictimOfTheWeek in "O Brave New World" is a con man with an M.O. of romancing single women, marrying them, embezzling all of their money, and then faking his own death and disappearing.
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* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: In "The Chimes at Midnight", the murderer rigs a RubeGoldbergDevice to drop his victim off the roof of the building to allow him to establish an alibi by being inside in full view of everyone else when the body hits the ground.
* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: In "The Chimes at Midnight", the murderer rigs a RubeGoldbergDevice to drop his victim off the roof of the building to allow him to establish an alibi by being inside in full view of everyone else when the body hits the ground.
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* ClearMyName: In "O Brave New World", Luella Shakespeare is framed for the murder of her new husband. She teams up with private investigator Frank Hathaway to clear her name, and ends up becoming his new partner.
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* PainToTheAss: In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", Frank is interviewing a suspect when he sits down heavily on a pin cushion and jumps immediately to his feet. The pincushion later turns out to be a vital clue in solving the mystery.
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* CharacterNameAlias: In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", an actress receiving death threats is sent a threatening teddy bear (ItMakesSenseInContext). Tracking down the courier service who delivered it, Frank says it was sent by a [[Literature/TheJungleBook Mr. Baloo]]. DI Marlowe mutters about how stupid would have to be not to pick that as a fake name.
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* CharacterNameAlias: In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", an actress receiving death threats is sent a threatening teddy bear (ItMakesSenseInContext). Tracking down the courier service who delivered it, Frank says it was sent by a [[Literature/TheJungleBook Mr. Baloo]]. DI Marlowe mutters about how stupid you would have to be not to pick that as a fake name.
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* ExplaingTheSoap: In "Exit, Pursued by Bear", Lou starts watching episodes of an old soap called ''Ward 9'' as background to a case. She starts showing Frank relevant episodes and explaining the plot. He is initially dismissive but quickly gets hooked.
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[[quoteright:339:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shakespeare_and_hathaway.jpg]]
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeTitles: The episode titles are quotes from Shakespeare plays.
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''Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators'' is a comedy-drama mystery television series set in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Ex-Detective Inspector Frank Hathaway, now a debt-laden private investigator, meets Luella Shakespeare when she employs him to investigate the fiancé she met online. Hathaway and his assistant, RADA-trained struggling actor Sebastian Brudenell, discover that her fiancé is a con-man, and report back to Luella, but she is reassured by her fiancé and the wedding goes ahead. When her new husband is killed at the reception, Luella is suspected of murder by local Detective Inspector Christina Marlowe who had been Frank's junior. Luella is thrown together with Frank and Sebastian to crack the mystery of what has happened, and after her name is cleared she uses her recovered savings to buy into Frank’s business.
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* ARareSentence: In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", Luella suggests that the crime could be the work of "aggressive Shakespeare traditionalists, which isn't something you say very often".
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Ex-Detective Inspector Frank Hathaway, now a debt-laden private investigator, meets Luella Shakespeare when she employs him to investigate the fiancé she met online. Hathaway and his assistant, RADA-trained struggling actor Sebastian Brudenell, discover that her fiancé is a con-man, and report back to Luella, but she is reassured by her fiancé and the wedding goes ahead. When her new husband is killed at the reception, Luella is suspected of murder by local Detective Inspector Christina Marlowe who had been Frank's junior. Luella is thrown together with Frank and Sebastian to crack the mystery of what has happened, and after her name is cleared she uses her recovered savings to buy into Frank’s business.
!!Contains examples of:
* ARareSentence: In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", Luella suggests that the crime could be the work of "aggressive Shakespeare traditionalists, which isn't something you say very often".
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