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Charles Todd's Inspector Ian Rutledge has appeared in thirteen mysteries since 1996, with the fourteenth scheduled for 2012. A [[World War
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* [[Always Murder]]
* [[Claustrophobia]]: Part of Rutledge's shellshock. After a bombing, he was [[Buried Alive]] under a mound of dirt, protected only by Hamish's corpse.
* [[Da Chief]]: Bowles.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]
* [[Defective Detective]]
* [[Don't Look Back]]: Rutledge senses Hamish's presence immediately behind him. As a result, he's extremely careful about looking into mirrors, and becomes anxious when he has to ride in the back seat of a car.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Maxwell Hume in ''A Lonely Death.'' {{spoiler|In the same novel, Rutledge comes close to doing the same thing, then changes his mind.}}
* [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]: The action begins shortly after the end of [[World War
* [[Greek Chorus]]: Hamish often fulfills this function.
* [[Helpful Hallucination]]: Hamish ''can'' be this, pointing out details that Rutledge's conscious mind has overlooked.
* [[Limited Advancement Opportunities]]: Rutledge is stuck at DI because Bowles repeatedly sabotages his career, once going so far as to {{spoiler|sign off on his arrest for the attempted murder of another detective.}}
* [[Police Procedural]]
* [[Shell
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