Georgette Heyer: Difference between revisions

* [[Handsome Devil]]: Tracy

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: [[Villain Ball|Tried twice]]. [[What an Idiot!|Failed.]] [[Just in Time|Twice.]]

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Justified; they're [[Upper Class Twit|idiots]].

* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: and HOW.

* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: But not the heroine herself.

* [[The Ingenue]]: Cherry, who is even referred to as such at one point.

 

* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Sophy, of course.

* [[Locked in a Room]]: Subverted: Eugenia and Augustus are locked in a wood, but emerge only extremely annoyed.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Parodied with Celia and Augustus.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lord Barham

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]

 

''{{smallcaps|The Unfinished Clue}}'' (detective story)

* [[Asshole Victim]] / Complete Monster / [[Abusive Dad]]: Sir Arthur Billington-Smith

* [[I Have No Son]]: Arthur Billington-Smith tried to do this {{spoiler|and that was why he was killed.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]}}: {{spoiler|The murderess was Billington-Smith's first wife, making sure her son wasn't disinherited. [[Title Drop|The unfinished clue]] is the word "There", the last thing he wrote. [[Chekhov's Gun|In spite of most people not paying too much attention to it, The Inspector realises it's the first letters of]] ''Theresa'', the Major's first wife. }}

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