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Sir Henry Merrivale

189 statements
35 feature instances
8 referencing feature instances

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Sir Henry Merrivale	comment	Sir Henry Merrivale is an Amateur Sleuth who features in numerous novels and short stories by Carter Dickson (pen name of John Dickson Carr).
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: The Plague Court Murders involved a murder where the victim was shot by a bullet carved from rock salt that dissolved in his body, leaving no trace.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_133c2f24	type	Curse of the Pharaoh
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_133c2f24	comment	Curse of the Pharaoh: In The Curse of the Bronze Lamp, an archaeologist dies from a scorpion sting soon after unearthing a tomb. Two of his colleagues seemingly vanish soon after a prophet curses them.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_133f1c12	comment	The Spymaster: Sir Henry's day job is a senior post in Intelligence.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_1f268108	type	Mystery Writer Detective
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_1f268108	comment	Mystery Writer Detective: William Cartwright in And So To Murder is a detective novelist who performs the bulk of the investigation, though Sir Henry Merrivale is the one who finally resolves the case.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: Sir Henry Merrivale is a Zig-Zagged version. He technically has all the qualities associated with this trope, while also reversing or defying them: He's the holder of a three-hundred-year-old baronetcy... and his politics are socialist. He's a highly educated man, qualified as both a doctor and a lawyer, and peppers his speech with cultural allusions... and he also uses terrible grammar on purpose. He moves in high-class circles, knows tons of important people... and has so few social skills that it borders on Ambiguous Disorder.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: In And So To Murder, Tilly persuades Bill that if he's to stand a chance with Monica, he's got to shave - she can't stand beards.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: In She Died A Lady, the narrator arrives at the house where he's been invited for dinner, and is met by the owner grumbling that some vandal has cut the telephone line. Mysterious deaths follow before the evening is out. What puzzles the detectives is that the cut phone line doesn't seem to be related to the deaths in any way; even if this is a murder plot (it is) rather than a suicide pact, it doesn't seem to be a plot that requires the telephone to be out of action.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4756a7f	type	Bourgeois Bohemian
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4756a7f	comment	Bourgeois Bohemian: Sir Henry, as well as being a Quintessential British Gentleman, is also a Socialist.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: The Judas Window takes place at the trial of James Answell for murder, with Sir Henry appearing as his defence counsel.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: The character arc between Monica Stanton and William Cartwright in And So To Murder. Tilly Parsons, the experienced script doctor, can see exactly what's going on.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: The killer in The Skeleton in the Clock used a cricket bat.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_7f933d43	type	Claustrophobia
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_7f933d43	comment	Claustrophobia: Pennik in The Reader is Warned is claustrophobic, so the prospect of being arrested (and therefore locked in a cell) terrifies him.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: In The Reader is Warned Pennik boasts that he has telepathic powers, including mind-reading and the ability to kill with "teleforce". Nobody believes him... until people who accuse him of being a fraud start turning up dead.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: This is the cause of death/murder method in The Reader is Warned. Sir Henry, while delivering The Summation, points out that the London County Council had banned electrical fittings in bathrooms for that reason.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: The murderer in She Died A Lady gets rid of the victim's car by sinking it in quicksand. It comes as rather a shock for the person hiding in the back, who has to get free before the car goes under.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: In The Curse of the Bronze Lamp, John Loring survives a murder attempt at the hands of a trusted colleague who was stealing from him, then confronts the crook in his home after Fell makes a long summation while letting the villain think the murder was successful, largely to make him have a Villainous Breakdown about being hanged. John says that he won't press charges, but tells his formerly trusted friend to "get out", saying this three times in a row for emphasis.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Used in The Ten Teacups, in which the victim is wrongly assumed to have been shot at close range because he had a powder burn from when the killer "accidentally" shot him with a blank cartridge the previous day.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_a66b0789	type	Fingertip Drug Analysis
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_a66b0789	comment	Fingertip Drug Analysis: Defied in The Plague Court Murders — Sir Henry warns Inspector Masters not to taste the white powder he's just found. Not because it's poisonous. It's salt residue from the Abnormal Ammo, and Sir Henry wants to keep that particular clue to himself.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: In She Died A Lady, the protagonist is on the point of setting out in search of vital evidence when he learns that a well-meaning character put a sleeping tablet in his Ovaltine. He decides to go anyway, in the hope that the drug won't take effect before he finds what he wants.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_bd635007	type	Fauxreigner
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_bd635007	comment	Fauxreigner: Belle in She Died A Lady is actually from Birmingham, but affects an American accent and dialect for the benefit of the patrons at the dance club where she works.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: At first, the murders in She Died A Lady appear to be this, before the police spot inconsistencies and suspect murder.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: The murderer in The Reader is Warned is kind enough to tell their latest intended victim (and hence the police, who are eavesdropping, and the reader), in detail, how they committed the crime.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: The Punch and Judy Murders has a counterfeiter who hid the real money with the fake money.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In one story Sir Henry is compared to Mycroft Holmes. Like Mycroft, he's a member of the Diogenes Club. She Died A Lady makes some subtle allusions to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with the story being narrated by the kindly old family doctor and the early introduction of a character called Ferrars.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Sir Henry is inclined to refer to people by nicknames he's given them (such as 'Horseface' or 'Lollypop') and expect everyone present to know who he's talking about.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: Carr's stories always showed you all the clues. The only problem was usually that the murder was impossible to begin with, so you couldn't figure out how, much less who.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Monica and Bill's First Kiss in And So To Murder follows this pattern to the letter - two slaps from Monica, and then a series of passionate kisses.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Sir Henry dreads being elevated to the House of Lords, fearing it would mean the end of his career.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: Carr, the acknowledged master of this back in the golden age of crime fiction, provided all sorts of different ways to accomplish this. If the detective is Henry Merrivale, there is an excellent chance you've got a locked room or impossible crime on your hands.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: Nearly all of She Died A Lady is narrated by the kindly old local doctor, but the epilogue is narrated by another character because the doctor was killed in an air raid before the truth came to light.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: In-Universe example in And So To Murder — in a Running Gag, Mr Aaronson's film about the Duke of Wellington continually drifts further and further away from actual history.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e8cfde67	type	Ambiguous Disorder
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_e8cfde67	comment	He moves in high-class circles, knows tons of important people... and has so few social skills that it borders on Ambiguous Disorder.
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Sir Henry Merrivale / int_fda23a3b	type	SpearCounterpart
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_fda23a3b	comment	Spear Counterpart: Sir Henry strongly resembles a genderflipped version of "Duchess" Agatha Alison in the Bencolin book Castle Skull.
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