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The Cabinet of Curiosities is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, first published in 2002, and is the third novel in their informal Agent Pendergast series.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When a construction crew unearths an old coal tunnel, thirty-six bodies of young men and women killed over a century ago are uncovered. While the developers and police dismiss it as irrelevant and ancient history, Agent Pendergast takes an interest, enlisting the help of Dr. Nora Kelly to discover the origin of these horribly mutilated corpses. Their investigations take them into the amazing world of Cabinets of Curiosities, the origins of The New York Museum of Natural History, and the story of what is possibly New York's first serial killer. But all the while something is lurking in the shadows, and someone is killing people with the same horrible, surgical precision of 130 years ago.Not to be confused with the horror anthology television series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: We get our first glimpses into the scandal that is the Pendergast family history. Including A great aunt who is locked up in a hospital for the criminally insane, a great grand uncle who dabbled in voodoo, became a serial killer to devise an immortality serum and sought to wipe out humanity, a distant grandfather who peddled "medicine" that killed scores of people, including his own wife, and the family did something to make the locals burn down their New Orleans mansion.
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Smithback does this to get in to the museum's personnel archives. He tries it on Fairhaven, but that man knows how to deal with Smithback.
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Apocalyptic Log: Shottum's letter detailing his last days and his horrible discoveries.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: According to Pendergast's great-aunt Cornelia, the French consider "May your dearest wish come true" to be the direst curse a person can lay on another.
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Alone with the Psycho: Smithback goes to investigate Leng's old house on his own, expecting to find an empty old house. He finds the surgeon and is captured as Nora and Pendergast figure out where he is and rush to save him.
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