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There's also a less common but still prevalent [[Comedy Tropes|comedy]] version of this trope, where the investigating character is trying to ''retrieve'' something, often an embarrassing item they've left behind.
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== Film ==
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rear Window]]'', of course. Indeed, many of the following examples are in fact [[Shout
* [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Manhattan Murder Mystery]]''.
* ''[[Rear Window]]'''s [[Spiritual Successor]], ''[[Disturbia]]''.
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* This is a crucial part of the English folktale, ''Mr Fox''. Lady Mary, Mr Fox's intended bride, is suspicious of him and follows him home to see his castle for herself - and gets more than she bargains for when she finds the literal skeletons in his cupboards. A ballad version by the folk group ''Mr Fox'' has the girl bring home evidence of her encounter with Fox's latest conquest and confront him with it:
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And with a blow both sharp and sweet
The hand was severed from the wrist
And dropped down at my feet
...
Foxy turned his back on me
He turned as if to leave
But I took him by the arm and plucked
The hand from out my sleeve }}
== Literature ==
* Occurs in [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[
* In [[
* In ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' a girl breaks into her neighbor's house to look for incriminating evidence in the death of her older sister.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]?'' episode "The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors."
* The ''[[Monk]]'' episode "Mr. Monk, Private Eye" contains a unique version of this trope, in which Monk sneaks on to a potential killer's boat and is promptly stowed away.
* Done ''ad nauseum'' in ''[[Psych]]'', wherein Shawn has ended up stowed on a boat, caught sneaking around various facilities (including a Seaworld-like park after-hours), and too many others to count. The sheer number of times he has snuck into someone's property means that, statistically, he should still be paying fines/jailtime for breaking and entering by 2099.
* In a Halloween episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Fez breaks his leg and stays in Eric's room, watching the Pinciotti's house and hoping to see Midge, their MILFy next door neighbor, naked. However, when she's nowhere to be seen and her husband Bob is seen by Fez carrying a large, bloody bag, Fez immediately assumes that Bob killed Midge. It turns out that Bob had merely butchered a cow and Midge was away on vacation.
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart of Darkness". Bart, injured from an accident diving into their swimming pool, overhears a scream from the Flanders house, and witnesses him burying something in the backyard. Believing Ned had [[Mistaken for Murderer|murdered his wife Maude]], Bart orders Lisa to go investigate. When Ned returns home early, Lisa gets trapped in the attic with Flanders, who is attempting to put away an axe (though from Bart's view it appeared Ned was threatening Lisa with the axe). It later turns out that Maude is alive, and was away at Bible camp the whole time. The scream that Bart heard earlier? [[Screams Like a Little Girl|It was Flanders.]]
* An episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' dealt with Rocko thinking Bev Bighead killed her husband Ed so he goes into their house to investigate, as it turns out Ed went to the hospital to remove a wart, the stabbing was Bev making a sculpture of Ed, and she buried a dead plant.
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