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** Modesty applies a similar principle, only with guns, vs. Reverend Crisp in ''Dragon's Claw''. Crisp is perhaps the greatest quick-draw expert in the world, over a full tenth of a second faster than Modesty, and so she has absolutely no chance vs. him in the quickdraw match that the villain is forcing her to fight him in and knows it. Modesty's solution? To start shooting at Crisp while still walking ''towards'' the duel arena, at a distance of approximately 50-plus meters... a distance she is far more likely to hit Crisp at than vice versa, as he is a close-quarters quickdraw specialist while Modesty is a long-range competition markswoman. Sure enough, despite firing five shots to her three he misses with all five<ref>In fairness, 150+ feet is a ''long'' way to hit anything with a handgun, even for a good marksman.</ref>, while she puts two out of three right into his torso.
* [[The Con]]
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: During the 1970s and '80s, most of the books got stuck with [
* [[Criminal Amnesiac]]: Willie in the novel ''Dead Man's Handle''.
** Played with in that the bad guys did not find Willie in this state, but instead deliberately kidnapped and brainwashed him.
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{{quote|"Modesty, my old!" Caspar snatched up her hand and kissed it. "I am possessed by a brilliant idea. Let us get married ''tout de suite'', old bean. ''Heiut!'' ''Oggi!'' As captain of the ''Delphine'', I will perform the ceremony. Tovarich Garvin shall be best man."}}
** Subverted in that Caspar is a con man using [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] and when not 'in character' he speaks in plain English.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Dr Giles Pennyfeather needs specific prompting to realize that
* [[Grenade Hot Potato]]: "A Better Day to Die" in ''Pieces of Modesty''
* [[Hearing Voices]]: ''The Impossible Virgin''; {{spoiler|it's the "fake voices from hidden radio" variation}}.
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* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]: ''The Night of Morningstar'' has a tragic version where {{spoiler|Ben Christie ''actually goes through with it'', because he had just found out that the villains were going to execute a terrorist bombing later that night killing tens of thousands and he absolutely could not die or blow his cover before he had a chance to warn someone. Then, after he murders an innocent teenaged girl to prove that he's not an infiltrator, the villains laugh at him and inform him that they already knew he was CIA even before the test started, and they just wanted to have fun with him. Ben doesn't really survive the revelation.}}
* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]: Cricketing skills allow a missionary to play [[Grenade Hot Potato]] in "A Better Day to Die".
* [[Impossible Mission]]: Any time Sir Gerald Tarrant asks Modesty for help, it is only because all remotely sane solutions have either no hope of working or have already failed. The only exceptions are when he asks her for an inconsequential favor as a friend, not business, and it invariably blows up into one of these anyway.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: At least [[Once an Episode]]
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Her mentor started calling her "Modesty" as a joke (she doesn't know her real name).
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