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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes, covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul. Patchett later allows for Japanese attacks during World War II, including Pearl Harbor, and even engineers more, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes, covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul. Patchett later allows for Japanese attacks during World War II, including Pearl Harbor, and even engineers more, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes. Covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul, Patchett also withholds knowledge of Japanese attacks during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, including Pearl Harbor, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes. Covering crimes, covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul, mogul. Patchett also withholds knowledge of later allows for Japanese attacks during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, World War II, including Pearl Harbor, and even engineers more, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes. Covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul, Patchett also withholds knowledge of Japanese attacks during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, including Pearl Harbor, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
%%* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
%%* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes. Covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul, Patchett also withholds knowledge of Japanese attacks during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, including Pearl Harbor, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
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%%* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
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*CompleteMonster (includes ''Literature/LAConfidential''): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] uses [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his public persona]] as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes. Covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul, Patchett also withholds knowledge of Japanese attacks during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, including Pearl Harbor, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having [[WouldHurtAChild young boys and girls]] pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man [[YouHaveFailedMe fails]] to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
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* BadassDecay: Dudley Smith is far from the unflappable, CrazyPrepared MagnificentBastard he was in the first L. A. Quartet; granted, these books are set much earlier so he might [[TookALevelInBadass grow into it yet.]]
* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
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* BadassDecay: Dudley Smith is far from the unflappable, CrazyPrepared MagnificentBastard villain he was in the first L. A. Quartet; ''Literature/LAQuartet'', actually slipping up in his plots and very much at risk of hits; granted, these books are set much earlier so he might [[TookALevelInBadass grow into it yet.]]
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%%* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
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* BadassDecay: Dudley Smith is far from the unflappable, CrazyPrepared MagnificentBastard he was in the first L. A. Quartet; granted, these books are set much earlier so he might [[TookALevelInBadass grow into it yet.]]
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* EvilIsSexy: Dudley is so compelling that he ends up having a torrid affair with (the actual, factual) Bette Davis. The closeted Hideo is also intensely attracted to Smith, a fact that Dudley is well aware of and more than willing to exploit.
