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* [[Played With]] vigorously in the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' (see above) fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6402346/1/Its_Raining_Men_Hallelujah It's Raining Men Hallelujah].

** It is a real thing that when Heiji's around, there is a tendency toward the bodies ''falling''. This fic proceeds to [[Flanderize]] the hell out of this.

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* Inspector [[Wallander|Kurt Wallander]] in the novels of Swedish writer Henning Mankell lives in the small town of Ystad (population 17,286). The murders just keep happening...

* Sam Jones, sculptor turned reluctant sleuth from Lauren Henderson's murder mystery books. In one book she is encountered by her policeman lover, stumbling home at 6 in the afternoon blind drunk, and it takes him mere moments to realise someone must be dead to start her drinking so early in the day. Her response?

* [[The Boxcar Children]] trip over mysteries on all of the vacations that they take during their [[Comic Book Time|apparently endless summer vacation]].

* [[Hercule Poirot]] ironically lampshades the improbability: "Never, never does it occur that someone says confidentially: 'Well, as a matter of fact, I've actually known five murderers'!". {{spoiler|This refers to a villain who deliberately provokes other people into committing murders}}. Poirot has known far more than that.

* Madison, from ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. Not only did she run into a serial killer taxidermist even before the game starts (via DLC), during the actual plot she runs into a guy who's after another serial killer (ironically the one she was looking for in the DLC). In the course of investigating that, she gets captured by ''still another'' serial killer, almost gets raped by a psychotic nightclub owner too, and trapped in a burning building by the real killer. Then, in one of the endings, ''yet another'' serial killer threatens her during a book signing, saying he's a true [[Worthy Opponent]] for her. Poor girl can't catch a break. No wonder she has nightmares.

* Jake and Jennifer Eagle, the protagonists of the ''[[Eagle Eye Mysteries]]'' series, seem to be this. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|noted]] during the second game's [[Justified Tutorial]].

 

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