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* [[Killed to Uphold The Masquerade]]: {{spoiler|Alan Brown, Agnes Timms, and Lady Thirke}} in ''Farthing''.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: in ''Ha'penny''
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: the eccentric upper-class Larkin sisters central to ''Ha'Penny'' are clearly based on the real [
** Unity Mitford is mentioned in ''Half a Crown'', so they still exist.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: Carmichael is blackmailed into {{spoiler|effectively becoming leader of a [[State Sec|British gestapo]]}}.
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* [[Rich Bitch]]: Most of the women in the Farthing Set
* [[Settled for Gay]]: Poor Daphne Normanby.
* [[Shout
* [[Stage Name]]: ''Ha'Penny'' has Viola Larkin, who goes by Viola Lark on the stage to distance herself from her famous and influential [[Blue Blood]] family.
* [[State Sec]]: The Watch in ''Half a Crown''.
* [[Suicide Pill]]: In ''Half a Crown'', everyone who's aware of the "Inner Watch" is fitted with a poison tooth as a matter of course. {{spoiler|Jack opts to use his when he is brought in by the police.}} {{spoiler|Carmichael's}} tooth is forcibly removed before he can get a chance to break it.
* [[Ten Little Murder Victims]]: subverted in ''Farthing'', which is set up as a classic country house [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]] murder mystery, then turns out to be {{spoiler|[[Everybody Did It|a political conspiracy]]}}.
* [[Token Enemy Minority]]: [[Invoked]] by Jacobson in ''Half a Crown'', the token Jewish member of the Watch. He's [[Zero
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Each of the novels is structured with alternating chapters from the point of view of Inspector Carmichael (3rd person), and a young woman writing in the 1st person: Lucy Kahn in ''Farthing'', Viola Larkin in ''Ha'Penny'', and Elvira Royston in ''Half a Crown''.
* [[Underground Railroad]]: The Inner Watch
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Scottites and their IRA connections in ''Ha'Penny''.
* [[Where Everybody Knows Your Flame]]: The Caravan Club in ''Half a Crown.''
* [[Zero
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