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The Blonde Hurricane

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The Blonde Hurricane	type	TVTItem
The Blonde Hurricane	label	The Blonde Hurricane
The Blonde Hurricane	page	TheBlondeHurricane
The Blonde Hurricane	comment	A 1939 comical adventure-thriller novel written by prolific Hungarian pulp author Jenő Rejtő (and one of the few of his works to be translated into English), The Blonde Hurricane (A szőke ciklon) tells the tale of one Evelyn Weston, an impoverished English girl who suddenly finds herself in the possession of a diamond worth one million pounds... if she can find it, that is.The diamond in question belonged to Jim Hogan, an old convict spending a life sentence in Dartmoor Penitentiary, who got it as a gift from a Russian prince for smuggling him across the Polish border during the Russian Civil War. As his only rightful possession, he hastily hid the diamond inside a clay Buddha statue adorning a toiletries box just before he was arrested by the Scotland Yard. Before his death in prison, he wills the diamond to Evelyn, the daughter of his old schoolmate and the only person who cared for him after Mr. Weston died. The only problem is that the Buddha statue, made by a ceramics manufacturer, was sold to somewhere sixteen years ago, and thus it's near impossible to find it.As Evelyn begins the search for the Buddha, she ends up trampling all over the life of the dour Lord Bannister, a celebrated scientist who she pulls into her adventure, and accidentally stumbles into an international case of espionage involving the disgraced Lieutenant Brandes and an undiscovered oil field in North Africa. Meanwhile, an escaped, ruthless criminal, Charles Gordon also attempts to get his hand on the diamond by tailing Evelyn with his cronies, and Eddy Rancing, a young man with a hopeless crush on her, attempts to secure the diamond for himself to earn her love by giving it to her personally, ending up in the backwater Swiss town of Mügli am See by following a false clue. Thus begins a dash for the diamond from London through Paris to Morocco.
The Blonde Hurricane	fetched	2023-04-26T14:28:51Z
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_12dd5755	type	Pursued Protagonist
The Blonde Hurricane / int_12dd5755	comment	Pursued Protagonist: Evelyn, for the majority of the story.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
The Blonde Hurricane / int_16ccd84b	comment	The Old Convict: Jim Hogan, the old criminal who willed the diamond to Evelyn before dying in prison.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
The Blonde Hurricane / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Eddy Rancing regains consciousness in the Sahara desert to a hyena licking his face. Hyenas don't live in the Sahara, only in the sub-Saharan region.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_17d44dcc	type	Do You Want to Haggle?
The Blonde Hurricane / int_17d44dcc	comment	Do You Want to Haggle?: An obligatory haggling scene occurs between Holler and an Arab salesman in Marrakech when he buys desert wear for Evelyn.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Blonde Hurricane / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Lord Bannister likens Evelyn to a "blonde hurricane" at one point for her repeated tendencies to turn his life on its head.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
The Blonde Hurricane / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: Lord Bannister hates being unshaven, to the point where Evelyn accuses him of valuing cleanliness above any noble cause.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Blonde Hurricane / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Marrakech colonial offices are full of these, and Evelyn nearly loses Lt. Brandes' trail while trying to get his whereabouts from them.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Blonde Hurricane / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Lord Bannister's shaving kit which ends up saving Eddy Rancing's life when he's dying in the desert. It also happens to have contained the Buddha statue all along.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_2af161b1	type	Take That, Us
The Blonde Hurricane / int_2af161b1	comment	Take That Us: When Adams the spy describes how Wilmington got hold of the orange dossier, Wilmington says he should write spy fiction books with such a vivid imagination.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
The Blonde Hurricane / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: Eddy Rancing's uncle, Arthur is filthy rich, but he's unwilling to pay 2000 pounds to Mr. Wollishoff to secure a diamond worth one million pounds.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Blonde Hurricane / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Gordon, Adams and their cronies hire 30 Arab murderers to wait for Evelyn in the Sahara and later besiege Mahrbuk Oasis.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_3266ed59	type	Incredibly Obvious Tail
The Blonde Hurricane / int_3266ed59	comment	Incredibly Obvious Tail: Corned-Beef tails Evelyn across Paris while dressed in a garishly colorful coat and a monocle. Evelyn spots him almost immediately.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_3667bfa1	type	Hastily Hidden MacGuffin
The Blonde Hurricane / int_3667bfa1	comment	Hastily Hidden MacGuffin: With the authorities closing in on him, Jim Hogan had to think fast as resorted to hiding the diamond in a Buddha statue, which is then sold to France.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
The Blonde Hurricane / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The cover of the audiobook version◊ spoils that the Buddha was in Lord Bannister's shaving kit all along.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Blonde Hurricane / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Lord Bannister initially bears his run-ins with Evelyn with resigned stoicism, but eventually throws himself into incredible peril to protect her, mostly out of chivalry but eventually out of love.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
The Blonde Hurricane / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Lt. Brandes turns out to be Lord Bannister's brother.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_461038e6	type	Mistaken for Spies
The Blonde Hurricane / int_461038e6	comment	Mistaken for Spies: Adams mistakes Evelyn and Gordon (who both try to find the Buddha statue in Wilmington's house) for intelligence agents working for some foreign power, because they were accidentally present when he discussed the orange dossier with Wilmington. Later on, Evelyn is trumpeted as a spy in the newspapers for being present at the shootout on Rue Mazarin and taking the orange dossier.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Blonde Hurricane / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Evelyn becomes this to Lord Bannister, mostly by accident, when she hides from Gordon in his cabin, and later on pulls him along her search for the diamond. At one point he notes that she exists in either of three states: she either flees from pursuers, cries or sleeps.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
The Blonde Hurricane / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: When Gordon threatens to kill Mr. Knickerbock, he says: "I have a family to support... I support my aunt who lives at Birkham in Sussex..." (In reality, he hadn't spoken to his aunt in eight years.)
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Blonde Hurricane / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Eddy Rancing's reaction to finding the Dreaming Buddha while dying of thirst in the Sahara desert.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Blonde Hurricane / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Lord Bannister's declaration that the Buddha is in his shaving kit, which Evelyn threw away into the desert.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
The Blonde Hurricane / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Gordon is instantly recognizable from the massive scar deforming his nose.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
The Blonde Hurricane / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: For an ordinary girl from London, Evelyn quickly takes to crawling around on rooftops during a shootout or evading criminals following her.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_54547f2e	type	Phantom Thief
The Blonde Hurricane / int_54547f2e	comment	Phantom Thief: Mercilessly parodied with Eddy Rancing's attempts to steal the Buddha from Grete. Every attempt he makes at sneakily burgling the statue turns into an Epic Fail.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_5889ca1d	type	Mineral MacGuffin
The Blonde Hurricane / int_5889ca1d	comment	Mineral MacGuffin: Once again, the diamond.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Blonde Hurricane / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Editor Holler, Lord Bannister's annoyingly nosy acquaintance.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_633e176e	type	Lurid Tales of Doom
The Blonde Hurricane / int_633e176e	comment	Lurid Tales of Doom: Holler wildly misinterprets the effects of sleeping sickness in his articles for the sake of sensation, much to Lord Bannister's chagrin.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
The Blonde Hurricane / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Lord Bannister's reaction to reading the newspaper which call Evelyn a spy.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_684496c7	type	ComicRelief
The Blonde Hurricane / int_684496c7	comment	Comic Relief: The (relatively) more serious episodes about Evelyn's adventures are interspersed with sequences of Eddy Rancing trying to find the (wrong) Buddha in Mügli am See.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Blonde Hurricane / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: The police hold a raid on Rue Mazarin to capture Adams and Wilmington, and kill and beat up several innocents in the process.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Blonde Hurricane / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Roughly one million pounds sterling" is a phrase that pops up often when the diamond is talked about.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_74b49e17	type	Price on Their Head
The Blonde Hurricane / int_74b49e17	comment	Price on Their Head: A bounty of 100 000 francs is put on Evelyn's head after she takes the dossier.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_7813e9c4	type	The Fall Guy
The Blonde Hurricane / int_7813e9c4	comment	The Fall Guy: Holm, Lt. Brandes' beloved younger brother was set up as the thief of the orange dossier so that Brandes would take the blame to protect him. Thus, Holm was the fall guy towards Brandes, and Brandes towards the rest of the world.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_7ae994c5	type	Delivery Guy Infiltration
The Blonde Hurricane / int_7ae994c5	comment	Delivery Guy Infiltration: Evelyn impersonates a delivery maid at one point to gain access to Wilmington's house where she suspects the diamond to be.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Blonde Hurricane / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Lord Bannister's brand new, large black Alpha Romeo. That is, until Evelyn reduces it to The Alleged Car.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_8d4799d1	type	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
The Blonde Hurricane / int_8d4799d1	comment	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Lord Bannister and Evelyn, respectively.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
The Blonde Hurricane / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. Evelyn is indeed blonde, and somewhat of The Ditz, but she's far from dumb.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
The Blonde Hurricane / int_9182ea54	comment	Crazy Cat Lady: Grete owns a truly absurd amount of cats. None of them are nice.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Blonde Hurricane / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Gordon and Adams team up to hunt down Evelyn, who is the key to both their objectives (the Buddha statue and the orange dossier).
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
The Blonde Hurricane / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: Lord Bannister's research is implied to concern scientific racism, as it's mentioned that he has written papers on the racial effects of trypanosomiasis. Then again it's possible that said papers argue against racism, as their contents aren't described.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Blonde Hurricane / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Marrakech, Holler mentions to Evelyn that "Bannister" is not his real name, it was only granted to Lord Bannister by the lordship. Later it turns out that his real name is Henry Brandes and he's Lt. Brandes' brother.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Blonde Hurricane / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: Buddha is referred to as "a Hindu deity" at one point. He's actually a Buddhist figure, and not a deity at all.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
The Blonde Hurricane / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: Evelyn is pursued across most of Europe and North Africa by Gordon, Adams and their cronies in search of both the diamond and the orange dossier.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Blonde Hurricane / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Rainer is the master of derailing conspiratorial meetings between the criminals with mind-bogglingly trivial questions, such as asking if the restaurant where they covertly meet has good coffee.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Blonde Hurricane / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The "Dreaming Buddha" statue, containing the diamond of Prince Radzovill. Also the orange dossier containing the map to an oil field in North Africa.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
The Blonde Hurricane / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Adams attempts to pull this on Evelyn and Gordon after they eavesdrop on him discussing the orange dossier with Wilmington.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Blonde Hurricane / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The picky, Neat Freak Lord Bannister turns out to have served in the war, and knows his way around a rifle, as it turns out during the siege of Mahrbuk Oasis.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Blonde Hurricane / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Eddy Rancing's ability to communicate in Morse code using light signals saves everyone when he warns Mahrbuk Oasis of Adams' coming with a flashlight and Lord Bannister's shaving mirror.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Blonde Hurricane / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lord Bannister relates to Evelyn repeatedly pulling him along on several chases with dry sarcasm.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_b5c47a93	type	A Degree in Useless
The Blonde Hurricane / int_b5c47a93	comment	A Degree in Useless: Evelyn studied philosophy in university, and found herself in poverty in short order.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_b8ba9b1f	type	Crossing the Desert
The Blonde Hurricane / int_b8ba9b1f	comment	Crossing the Desert: Evelyn and Lord Bannister have to cross the Sahara on camelback to reach the oasis where Lt. Brandes is stationed. Gordon and his company follow them as well.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_b8f8de7d	type	Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction
The Blonde Hurricane / int_b8f8de7d	comment	Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction: Specifically, a diamond the size of a walnut, which used to adorn the crown of the old czars.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Blonde Hurricane / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Evelyn absolutely hates Lord Bannister's shaving kit.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
The Blonde Hurricane / int_c514c2c4	comment	Gentleman and a Scholar: Lord Bannister, the refined researcher of sleeping sickness/trypanosomiasis.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Blonde Hurricane / int_c819533b	comment	Rage-Breaking Point: Evelyn eventually gets fed up with Lord Bannister's shaving kit and cuts it off his camel, leaving it in the desert. It ends up saving Eddy Rancing's life when he finds it dying of thirst and drinking the mouthwash.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_c9eb478e	type	Satchel Switcheroo
The Blonde Hurricane / int_c9eb478e	comment	Satchel Switcheroo: Before the flight to Morocco, Evelyn accidentally switches the bag containing the orange dossier with Lord Bannister's shaving kit. Later she does it again before departing to the desert.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_cc8109ab	type	Mistaken for Romance
The Blonde Hurricane / int_cc8109ab	comment	Mistaken for Romance: Lord Bannister's illustrious friends mistake Evelyn for his wife... which is unfortunate, since he's just divorced his actual wife in utmost secret. They eventually end up getting actually married.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Blonde Hurricane / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Corned-Beef, one of Gordon's lackeys, apparently named so because he's "cold and dumb".
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Blonde Hurricane / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Gordon will stop at nothing to get the diamond, even if it means riding into the Moroccan desert or teaming up with an international spy.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Blonde Hurricane / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Holler ends up saving Evelyn and Lord Bannister by leading Moroccan Spahis to liberate Mahrbuk Oasis from Adams' men.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Blonde Hurricane / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Eddy Rancing follows a completely different Buddha statue which has no diamond inside it but was also sold by Longson & North, and thus ends up in the backwater Swiss town of Mügli am See.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Blonde Hurricane / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Evelyn just so happens to attempt her Delivery Guy Infiltration when Wilmington and Adams discuss the fate of Lieutenant Brandes and the orange dossier. Later she escapes from the house and just so happens to run into Lord Bannister. Eddy Rancing finds Lord Bannister's dropped shaving kit in the desert, completely by accident.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_de02afbc	type	No MacGuffin, No Winner
The Blonde Hurricane / int_de02afbc	comment	No MacGuffin, No Winner: Almost. Evelyn throws away Lord Bannister's hated shaving kit into the desert, which turns out to have contained the Buddha statue all along. Thankfully, Eddy Rancing finds it on their trail.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
The Blonde Hurricane / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Mr. Knickerbock, the paper-pusher who handles the sales logs of the Longson & North ceramics manufacturer, accepts a bribe of 50 pounds from Evelyn and her mother to sell them the 1922 sales log which contains a clue to the Buddha's location. Later Eddy Rancing further bribes him with 400 pounds to sell him the same sales log, at which point he gives him a different log with the 1922 label glued on. When Gordon also wants the 1922 log from him, he's forced to admit the fraud. Gordon promptly takes the 450 pounds from him and beats him up.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
The Blonde Hurricane / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Everyone in Mügli am See; the narration describes the supreme ugliness of the inhabitants of the small Swiss town with loving detail.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
The Blonde Hurricane / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: An exotic dancer called Ethel Ardfern seduced Lieutenant Brandes' younger brother as part of the orange dossier's theft. He was pinned as the thief and later killed.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_ebb3c390	type	Crash-Into Hello
The Blonde Hurricane / int_ebb3c390	comment	Crash-Into Hello: Lord Bannister accidentally crashes into Evelyn while boarding a ship across the La Manche Channel, their first meeting out of many to come.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
The Blonde Hurricane / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Due to Evelyn's questionable driving skills, Lord Bannister's expensive Alpha Romeo is reduced to a barely-functioning trash heap on the highway from Paris to Lyon.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_f25493f4	type	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
The Blonde Hurricane / int_f25493f4	comment	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Mügli am See is such a boring hole that the populace gathers on the streets to gawk when the fire department mobilizes to get Eddy Rancing off the roof.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Blonde Hurricane / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: And they indeed do.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Blonde Hurricane / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Rare Male Example. Out of options, Eddy attempts to secure the Buddha by marrying Grete.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Blonde Hurricane / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: The "Paris-Lyon highway" sequence is essentially a long set of jokes centered around Evelyn's terrible driving.
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The Blonde Hurricane / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Blonde Hurricane / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Lord Bannister likes to keep himself tidy and clean, and his continous insistence to shave eventually becomes a Berserk Button for Evelyn.
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