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* [[Handsome Devil]]: Tracy
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: [[Villain Ball|Tried twice]]. [[What an Idiot!|Failed.]] [[Just in Time|Twice.]]
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: The Belmanoirs.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Justified; they're [[Upper Class Twit|idiots]].
* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: and HOW.
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* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: But not the heroine herself.
* [[Just Friends]]
* [[The Ingenue]]: Cherry, who is even referred to as such at one point.
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* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Sophy, of course.
* [[Licked by the Dog]]: Everyone thinks Charles is a domestic tyrant, but Sophy knows better...because every animal in the novel loves and trusts him, 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.
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* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lord Barham
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* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]
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''{{smallcaps|The Unfinished Clue}}'' (detective story)
* [[Asshole Victim]] / Complete Monster / [[Abusive Dad]]: Sir Arthur Billington-Smith
* [[Cultural Stereotypes]]: [[Latin Land|Lola de Silva]] and her agent, a [[Greedy Jew]].
* [[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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