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{{quote|''If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of a master to do both at once.''|Chapter Fifteen: On Skullduggery, ''[[The Manual of Detection]]''}}

 

A true [[Mind Screw]] of a novel by Jedediah Berry, with comparisons to [[Franz Kafka]] and [[Jorge Luis Borges]], as well as [[Film Noir]].

 

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: {{spoiler|He's the overseer.}}

* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: ''The Forty Winks'' {{spoiler|where the protagonist encounters the bad guy's henchmen for the first time and, yes, they're playing pool.}}

* [[Plea of Personal Necessity]]: {{spoiler|Shortly before he’s shot, Arthur, the Overseer, "You know what that madman's doing to my city. To our city. You need me."}}

* [[Psychic Powers]]: The whole plot revolves around Chapter Eighteen, {{spoiler|which involves observing people's dreams and communicating while sleeping}}.

** ''The Wonderly'' (the boat in the Oldest Murdered Man case). Miss Wonderly is the alias used by [[Femme Fatale]] Brigid O'Shaughnessy when she presents herself as a client at ''Spade & Archer'' in [[The Maltese Falcon]].

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: The Rook brothers, who used to be Siamese twins until Enoch Hoffman had them separated.

 

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