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* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: ''In Blood's A Rover'', though to be fair the focus is mostly on herblore and drugs, rather than zombies and magic. Plus it's an Ellroy book, so ''everything'' is shown as being bizarre and outlandish. |
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: ''In Blood's A Rover'', though to be fair the focus is mostly on herblore and drugs, rather than zombies and magic. Plus it's an Ellroy book, so ''everything'' is shown as being bizarre and outlandish. |
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* [[Ho Yay]]: Quite a bit of it occurs between Danny Upshaw and Mal Considine. Not that surprising if you consider Danny's in the closet... |
* [[Ho Yay]]: Quite a bit of it occurs between Danny Upshaw and Mal Considine. Not that surprising if you consider Danny's in the closet... |
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* [[Kill'Em All]]: There's pretty much no one left standing by the end of {{spoiler|''Blood's a Rover''}}. |
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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: This happens a lot. For example, in ''The Cold Six Thousand'' Wayne Tedrow Jr is trying to get away from the shadow of his father - a racist who has made a fortune publishing hate literature. He is dispatched to kill an unarmed black man, who has offended the wrong people in Vegas, for the titular amount of money. He cannot bring himself to do it. The man he was sent to kill {{spoiler|ends up raping and murdering Wayne's wife}}. A similar thing happens in ''Bloods a Rover'' where Wayne goes to warn a black man that he is to be framed for a murder Wayne committed and {{spoiler|he ends up having to kill him and an innocent bystander after the guy attacks him. He goes on to steal from the Mob and uses the proceeds to fund leftist causes in the Dominican Republic after seeing how minorities are treated there. He is randomly murdered while walking among the people he is trying to help. Dwight Holly is murdered by Scotty Bennett when he tries to prevent Bennett from killing Crutch.}} |
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: This happens a lot. For example, in ''The Cold Six Thousand'' Wayne Tedrow Jr is trying to get away from the shadow of his father - a racist who has made a fortune publishing hate literature. He is dispatched to kill an unarmed black man, who has offended the wrong people in Vegas, for the titular amount of money. He cannot bring himself to do it. The man he was sent to kill {{spoiler|ends up raping and murdering Wayne's wife}}. A similar thing happens in ''Bloods a Rover'' where Wayne goes to warn a black man that he is to be framed for a murder Wayne committed and {{spoiler|he ends up having to kill him and an innocent bystander after the guy attacks him. He goes on to steal from the Mob and uses the proceeds to fund leftist causes in the Dominican Republic after seeing how minorities are treated there. He is randomly murdered while walking among the people he is trying to help. Dwight Holly is murdered by Scotty Bennett when he tries to prevent Bennett from killing Crutch.}} |
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* [[Sawed Off Shotgun]]: A very common weapon in his books. |
* [[Sawed Off Shotgun]]: A very common weapon in his books. |
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