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{{quote|''Ransacking hotel rooms is probably safe,''
|'''[[The Universal Genre Savvy Guide|The Evil Henchman's Guide]]'''}}
You've got the [[MacGuffin]] and the [[Big Bad]] knows it. So is he going to send his [[Mook]]s after you?
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[[Super-Trope]] of [[Faking and Entering]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Taken to extremes with Light in ''[[Death Note]]''. He hides the titular [[Artifact of Death]] in a false bottom in his drawer rigged to incinerate the Death Note if it isn't opened properly. He also pulls the handle of his door upwards after leaving, along with putting a piece of tape on the door, because he knows that if his mother, father, or sister were to enter the room, they'd trip the tape-defence. When he finds the tape still on, but the handle moved, he knows that his room has been searched by pros.
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** In ''Ghostmaker'', Gaunt is startled awake and catches Inquisitor Lilith in his room. She assures him that she would not have done it if she had known he was there.
* Emil Karpo (a Russian cop) in Stuart A. Kaminsky's Russian mysteries did that once—as well as the usual thread, he put a single hair of his across a doorway or something, which let him know the KGB had searched his room.
* A grim subversion in ''[[
** [[Mind Screw|They may have been lying.]] ''Maybe''.
* [[Harry Potter]]'s dorm room is ransacked by a Voldemort-possessed Ginny Weasley in ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]''.
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