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Never Send Flowers

108 statements
20 feature instances
7 referencing feature instances

Never Send Flowers	type	TVTItem
Never Send Flowers	label	Never Send Flowers
Never Send Flowers	page	NeverSendFlowers
Never Send Flowers	comment	The one where Bond goes to Euro Disneyland. The thirteenth James Bond novel by John Gardner, published in 1993.Five seemingly unrelated assassinations take place across the globe, and Bond is tasked to look into them. Investigating together with Swiss agent Flicka von Grüsse, the clues lead Bond to the castle of a retired actor David Dragonpol.
Never Send Flowers	fetched	2023-07-31T18:44:56Z
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Never Send Flowers	isPartOf	DBTropes
Never Send Flowers / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
Never Send Flowers / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: A rare hybrid rose is delivered into each funeral of the assassinated people, accompanied with the message "This is the way it must end. Goodbye."
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Never Send Flowers / int_29e294a6	type	Stopped Clock
Never Send Flowers / int_29e294a6	comment	Stopped Clock: The time of Dragonpol's escape from the authorities is determined by the broken wristwatch on one of the policemen set to guard him.
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Never Send Flowers / int_348c7ded	type	Sword Cane
Never Send Flowers / int_348c7ded	comment	Sword Cane: The assassin who is responsible for the deaths around the globe carries a cane that has a gun built into it.
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Never Send Flowers / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Never Send Flowers / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Swiss policeman Lempke, in a part of making himself appear simpler than he really is, constantly mangles English idioms.
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Never Send Flowers / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Never Send Flowers / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: David Dragonpol isn't just a retired actor, he is a Serial Killer who in fits of insanity plan and execute high-profile assassinations.
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Never Send Flowers / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Never Send Flowers / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: David March, the brother of MI5 agent Laura March (who was one of the five assassinated people), was a serial killer who back in the seventies (on the "orders" from the Egyptian Goddess Isis) killed four women by decapitation and kept their heads as souvenirs.
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Never Send Flowers / int_92fa14	type	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
Never Send Flowers / int_92fa14	comment	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: One of the wackier ones in the series comes in the form of the opening author acknowledgement:
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Never Send Flowers / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Never Send Flowers / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: David Dragonpol, who commits assassination in fits of insanity.
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Never Send Flowers / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Never Send Flowers / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Bond hears from Flicka that she was told by M that she can't take part in the climax, and he suggested to her to take some time off in the health clinic at Shrublands. Bond tells her that he tried it once and it almost killed him.
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Never Send Flowers / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
Never Send Flowers / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: The serial killer has this as his gimmick. The climax of the book has him trying to assassinate Princess Diana at Disneyland.
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Never Send Flowers / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Never Send Flowers / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Bestowed upon the MI5 agent Carmel Chantry, whose boss is also named Gerald Grant. Later she brings up a retired actor called David Dragonpol into the thickening plot.
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Never Send Flowers / int_c2ecf3b8	type	Show Some Leg
Never Send Flowers / int_c2ecf3b8	comment	Show Some Leg: Flicka distracts a henchman that has her and Bond on gunpoint by moving in such fashion which makes her skirt get caught in the railing next to them, uplifting it. As the guy is stunned by the sudden sight before him, Bond tackles him.
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Never Send Flowers / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Never Send Flowers / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Dragonpol is killed with the bomb which he was going to use to kill Princess Diana and her children.
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Never Send Flowers / int_dd6749e1	type	The Von Trope Family
Never Send Flowers / int_dd6749e1	comment	The Von Trope Family: Flicka von Grüsse, Bond's Swiss Intelligence ally in the investigation of the death of Laura March.
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Never Send Flowers / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Never Send Flowers / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Gardner acknowledges in the foreword that he took some liberties in depicting the security of Disneyland in the climax.
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Never Send Flowers / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Never Send Flowers / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: The first assassination in the opening chapter has a killer disguised as a nun shooting a General (who is visiting the pope in Vatican) in a scooter drive-by.
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Never Send Flowers / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
Never Send Flowers / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: David Dragonpol has an identical brother Daniel, whom he switches places with when his insanity takes hold on him.
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Never Send Flowers / int_f70bcdc3	type	External Combustion
Never Send Flowers / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: The second person to be killed in the first chapter is a politician whose car was rigged with a bomb, which took eight startings of the vehicle before blowing up.
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Never Send Flowers / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
Never Send Flowers / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: Dragonpol's skill in acting has also granted him with ability to make himself unrecognizable through disguises.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	Assassination Attempt / int_e7debab1
Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	Bad Habits / int_e7debab1
Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	Calling Card / int_e7debab1
Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	English Literature / int_e7debab1
Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	External Combustion / int_e7debab1
Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_e7debab1
Never Send Flowers	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_e7debab1

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