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* FairForItsDay: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive.
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* FairForItsDay: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. While much has been made of the anti-Semitic slurs in the first chapter, careful reading shows that these slurs are all made by one character, who is seen as paranoid and quite possibly unhinged by others.
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the sequels have their own pages now
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!!Book series
* FairForItsDay: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
* FoeYay: Stumm in ''Greenmantle''. Examples of it include Stumm's man-on-man fight in his rather frilly drawing room and intruding upon Hannay while he's getting dressed. (It's even worse when you read it.)
* NightmareFuel: Mary's description of what she's going to do to the bad guy in ''The Three Hostages'' makes ''the good guys'' quake in their shoes.
* FairForItsDay: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
* FoeYay: Stumm in ''Greenmantle''. Examples of it include Stumm's man-on-man fight in his rather frilly drawing room and intruding upon Hannay while he's getting dressed. (It's even worse when you read it.)
* NightmareFuel: Mary's description of what she's going to do to the bad guy in ''The Three Hostages'' makes ''the good guys'' quake in their shoes.
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* FairForItsDay: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive.
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* MagnificentBastard: Most of the villains.
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The Harsher In Hindsight page explicitly says that "and then somebody involved in the production died" is not enough to count unless the manner of their death has some parallel to the fiction.
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!!The 1978 film
* HarsherInHindsight: A very quick example of the trope. A user review published on the Internet Movie Database on 17 December 2011 regarded the film positively, hailing it as being the best adaptation of the source material, outshining even the Hitchcock version. Two days later, the film's director, Don Sharp, was reported to have passed away.
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!!The 1978 film
* HarsherInHindsight: A very quick example of the trope. A user review published on the Internet Movie Database on 17 December 2011 regarded the film positively, hailing it as being the best adaptation of the source material, outshining even the Hitchcock version. Two days later, the film's director, Don Sharp, was reported to have passed away.
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: FairForItsDay: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
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* ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, and there is use of language that would not pass muster in these more enlightened times. Hannay more than once uses the word "nigger" to describe the inhabitants of the African continent, and "white man" as a synonym for a person of honor and good moral character.
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''BulldogDrummond'', ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
* FoeYay: Stumm in ''Greenmantle''. Examples of it include Stumm's man-on-man fight in his rather frilly drawing room and intruding upon Hannay while he's getting dressed. (It's even worse when you read it.)
* FoeYay: Stumm in ''Greenmantle''. Examples of it include Stumm's man-on-man fight in his rather frilly drawing room and intruding upon Hannay while he's getting dressed. (It's even worse when you read it.)
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The series is known for its many improbable coincidences.
** Out of the entire housing stock of Scotland, Hannay just happens to enter the house being rented by the spy ringleaders?
** In ''Mr Standfast'' the remote and inaccessible Scottish cave Hannay is staking out [[spoiler:is visited on that very evening by a possible antagonist from earlier in the book. He turns out to be a complete innocent who likes mountain climbing and just happens to be in the area]].
* GentlemanAdventurer: ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' takes place after Hannay has retired from a busy and dangerous life as a mining engineer in Africa; he does have the leisure to pick up Scudder's adventure, but rather [[JumpedAtTheCall jumps at the opportunity]] because the idleness is driving him crazy. Then it's averted in the sequels, with Hannay becoming a hard-working Army officer.
** Out of the entire housing stock of Scotland, Hannay just happens to enter the house being rented by the spy ringleaders?
** In ''Mr Standfast'' the remote and inaccessible Scottish cave Hannay is staking out [[spoiler:is visited on that very evening by a possible antagonist from earlier in the book. He turns out to be a complete innocent who likes mountain climbing and just happens to be in the area]].
* GentlemanAdventurer: ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' takes place after Hannay has retired from a busy and dangerous life as a mining engineer in Africa; he does have the leisure to pick up Scudder's adventure, but rather [[JumpedAtTheCall jumps at the opportunity]] because the idleness is driving him crazy. Then it's averted in the sequels, with Hannay becoming a hard-working Army officer.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The series is known for its many improbable coincidences.
** Out of the entire housing stock of Scotland, Hannay just happens to enter the house being rented by the spy ringleaders?
** In ''Mr Standfast'' the remote and inaccessible Scottish cave Hannay is staking out [[spoiler:is visited on that very evening by a possible antagonist from earlier in the book. He turns out to be a complete innocent who likes mountain climbing and just happens to be in the area]].
** Out of the entire housing stock of Scotland, Hannay just happens to enter the house being rented by the spy ringleaders?
** In ''Mr Standfast'' the remote and inaccessible Scottish cave Hannay is staking out [[spoiler:is visited on that very evening by a possible antagonist from earlier in the book. He turns out to be a complete innocent who likes mountain climbing and just happens to be in the area]].
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* GentlemanAdventurer: ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' takes place after Hannay has retired from a busy and dangerous life as a mining engineer in Africa; he does have the leisure to pick up Scudder's adventure, but rather [[JumpedAtTheCall jumps at the opportunity]] because the idleness is driving him crazy. Then it's averted in the sequels, with Hannay becoming a hard-working Army officer.
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* FairForItsDay / ValuesDissonance: Buchan's writing can tend towards the jingoistic when read with modern eyes, but it's nowhere near as bad as some other authors writing at the time; in fact, when compared to works such as ''BulldogDrummond'', Hannay and Buchan are downright progressive. ''Greenmantle'' in particular shows detailed knowledge of and respect for Islam.
