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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries

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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries	comment	The Cat in the Stacks is an armchair/amateur sleuth/Cozy Mystery series by Dean James writing as Miranda James. The series features librarian Charlie Harris, a widowed father of two adult children, and his pet Maine Coon cat Diesel. Having moved back to his old hometown of Athena, Mississippi three years before the start of the series and met Diesel one year later, Charlie works as an archivist in the library of Athena College and, with Diesel, has a tendency to stumble across mysteries.The fourth book of the series introduced elderly sisters Miss An'gel and Miss Dickce Ducote, who also live in Athena and would later get their own Spinoff series, Southern Ladies Mysteries, in which the two follow in Charlie's footsteps in having to solve murders, both in Athena and in other locations they visit. The spinoff went on hiatus after its fourth installment, but the sisters, their pets Endora and Peanut, and their new ward Benjy Stephens (the latter three of whom were introduced in the first spinoff book) continue to appear in the main books afterward.The two series (by publication order) consist of: Cat #1: Murder Past Due (August 2010) Summary Bestselling novelist Godfrey Priest returns to Athena to donate his papers to his alma mater, and to meet the son he never knew. But when he turns up dead, Charlie Harris and Diesel must figure out who's responsible. Cat #2: Classified as Murder (May 2011) Summary Charlie is hired to inventory the rare book collection of aging eccentric James Delacorte, and soon finds himself having to solve the old man's murder. He also becomes friends with Delacorte's nephew Stewart, who becomes one of his boarders. Cat #3: File M for Murder (January 2012) Summary Caustic playwright Connor Lawton comes to work for Athena College, and helps Charlie's daughter Laura get a job at the college as well. But when Conner turns up dead, Laura is the prime suspect, and Charlie must find a way to clear her name. Cat #4: Out of Circulation (January 2013) Summary Charlie Harris has joined the Friends of the Library board and is helping to plan the upcoming library Christmas fundraiser gala. Unfortunately, town busybody Vera Cassity is also a member, and it seems that almost everyone, including sisters Miss An'gel and Miss Dickce Ducote, has it out for her. When her dead body is discovered with Charlie's housekeeper Azalea standing over it, Charlie must figure out the real killer. Cat #5: The Silence of the Library (January 2014) Summary The Athena Public Library is holding an exhibit to honor famous novelist Electra Barnes Cartwright, who has agreed to make a rare public appearance. But things soon turn ugly when a rabid fan resorts to murder to get ahold of some of her rarer books. Ladies #1: Bless Her Dead Little Heart (October 2014) Summary While cat-sitting for Charlie (who's gone to Europe for three weeks with his girlfriend, children, their partners and Stewart Delacorte), the Ducote sisters find themselves caught up in a murder mystery, in which the greedy children of their former sorority sister Rosabelle Sultan will resort to anything in order to find out the contents of her will. Cat #6: Arsenic and Old Books (January 2015) Summary Athena's mayor Lucinda Beckwith Long donates a set of Civil War-era diaries to the archives of Athena College. However, enemies of the family and a history professor at the college have a vested interest in acquiring the diaries for themselves, with fatal results that leave Charlie scrambling for answers. When Charlie Met Diesel Summary Bonus short story depicting how Charlie first found Diesel as a kitten. Ladies #2: Dead with the Wind (September 2015) Summary The Ducote sisters head to Louisiana for a family wedding, but when the bride dies suddenly and under suspicious circumstances, Miss An'gel and Miss Dickce must solve the crime. Cat #7: No Cats Allowed (January 2016) Summary Athena's new library director, Oscar Reilly, has made a number of enemies in his efforts to cut costs and replace some of the staff with younger members. He even bans all animals, including Diesel, from the library. But when Reilly turns up dead, suspicion falls on Charlie's friend Melba, and Charlie must figure out the real culprit before it's too late. Ladies #3: Digging Up the Dirt (September 2016) Summary It's November in Athena, and the Ducote sisters are busy with plans for the Athena Garden Club's annual spring tour of grand old homes, but when a dead body turns up on the estate of recently returned Hadley Partridge, the sisters must figure out who it is and who was responsible. Cat #8: Twelve Angry Librarians (February 2017) Summary The Southern Academic Libraries Association is holding their annual meeting at Athena College, and as interim library director, it's up to Charlie to deliver the welcome speech to all the visiting librarians, including his old classmate and world-class jerk Gavin Fong. When Gavin turns up dead, it's Charlie who's believed guilty, and now he must clear his own name. Ladies #4: Fixing to Die (October 2017) Summary Shortly after solving their most recent case, the Ducote sisters go to Natchez, Mississippi in order to help Mary Turner Catlin, the granddaughter of an old friend, discover the true cause behind ghostly goings-on in her house, including a sudden murder. Cat #9: Claws for Concern (February 2018) Summary Charlie receives a surprise letter from true crime writer Jack Pemberton, who wants to make Charlie the subject of his latest book on amateur sleuths and their involvement in helping police solve crimes. While initially reluctant, Charlie winds up working with Jack to solve a twenty-year-old cold case in which a newfound relative, his late uncle's son from his first marriage, is the prime suspect. Cat #10: Six Cats a Slayin' (October 2018) Summary Charlie prepares to enjoy his first Christmas as a grandfather, but things are complicated through the arrival of a box of five kittens on his doorstep with a note begging him to keep them safe, and through the murder of Charlie's nosy neighbor, real estate agent Gerry Arbitron, who's very interested in acquiring his house. Cat #11: The Pawful Truth (July 2019) Summary Charlie gets involved in a mystery once more, involving a new history professor at the college and the man's wife, another colleague of Charlie's. Cat #12: Careless Whiskers (January 2020) Summary Athena College's theater department is putting on a play by Charlie's son-in-law Frank Salisbury and starring Charlie's daughter Laura, but when another of the actors drops dead from a poisoned drink Laura handed him, she becomes the number one suspect, and Charlie and Diesel must figure out the real killer. Cat #13: Cat Me If You Can (August 2020) Summary Charlie, Diesel and Helen Louise head to North Carolina for a book event, partially sponsored by the Ducote sisters. But when one of the sisters is implicated in a murder, Charlie must find a way to clear them. Cat #14: What the Cat Dragged In (August 2021) Summary Charlie discovers that contrary to what he'd believed, his grandfather's house had not been sold to its longtime tenant, but was left to Charlie himself. Checking out the house, he and Diesel soon find a new mystery to solve. Cat #15: Hiss Me Deadly (June 2023) Summary Wilfred "Wil" Threadgill, an upperclassman from Charlie's old high school and now a famous musician, returns to Athena. But not everyone approves, and when one of the band members is killed, Charlie must act to find the culprit before they set their eyes on Charlie's friend Melba, who's become close to Wil since his return.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: In book 2, Daphne Morris is always playing like she's deathly ill. She does have some heart troubles, but most of her illnesses are just faking for attention.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: In book 2, Hubert Morris is blatantly cheating on his mentally ill wife with his long-time lover, Anita Milhaus. He even stole from his uncle James' rare book collection to finance the presents he bought for Anita, which is what draws Charlie into the situation when James hires him to inventory the collection and figure out what's missing.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Delacortes in book 2. James cares only for his books (and secretly pines for his butler), his sister Daphne's always pretending to be ill, her son Hubert can't hold down a job because he thinks he's entitled to anything because of his lineage (something he got from his mother), Hubert's wife Eloise is mentally ill, and James' grandniece Cynthia (granddaughter of James' late brother Thomas) is cold to most everyone. The closest to normal is James' flamboyantly gay grandnephew Stewart (grandson of James' other late brother, Arthur), who can't stand most of his blood relatives (except for James, to some extent) and can't wait to get out of that house, just to get away from them all (save for Eloise, the only non-blood relative among them and the one he liked most) — he mainly stayed in order to save money on housing.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: Charlie Harris, naturally, as he keeps finding dead bodies, or at least knows the person who turned up dead. He, his children and Chief Deputy Kanesha Berry are all none too thrilled by this, and Sean Harris in particular is noted several times as being concerned about his father's safety due to his tendency to attract murders and murderers.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Charlie Harris himself, who's almost fifty in the first book and is a supportive friend and father figure to his boarders.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_182f59f9	comment	On One Condition: In book 2, James Delacorte's will leaves a sum to his sister Daphne on the condition that she use it to move into an assisted-living facility. Otherwise she gets nothing. In Ladies #2, it's explained that Sondra Delevan will receive an inheritance from her late father either when she marries or when she turns 25, whichever comes first, but that if she marries before she turns 20, she gets nothing. This is part of why she refused to marry her stepbrother when she was seventeen, despite him getting her pregnant.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1892d512	comment	Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Stewart Delacorte describes Sean Harris as "Tall, dark and gorgeous" shortly after they first meet in book 2.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_18e11001	comment	Justin Wardlaw, supporting character throughout the series, learns early in book 1 that his biological father is supposedly famous writer Godfrey Priest. Godfrey ends up the book's Victim of the Week when he figures out he was lied to and who Justin's actual birth father was — it's Godfrey's older half-brother Rick Tackett, making Godfrey into Justin's uncle instead. Justin's mother, who was the one lying about Justin's parentage so that he'd inherit Godfrey's millions, is the killer.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Charlie's daughter Laura, a 23-year-old actress at the time of the first book, who is noted as having always been closer to her father than her mother. Elizabeth Barber was this for her father in book 9 — a notorious skinflint, she was the only member of the family he was willing to spend money on. Until she killed him after he murdered his wife and Elizabeth's younger brothers.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1a68856b	type	Cats Hate Water
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1a68856b	comment	Cats Hate Water: Diesel is specifically noted more than once as hating getting his paws wet, making Charlie carry him rather than walk across wet ground on his own.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1b38f6b7	type	Shout-Out Theme Naming
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1b38f6b7	comment	Shout-Out Theme Naming: In Ladies #1, Benjy Stephens named his pet tarantulas Bert and Ernie. The five kittens that appear in book 10 are all given names that are shout-outs to literature. Charlie names one of them Marlowe after the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (also after a female cat he'd once owned by the same name). Her sister is named Bastet, after a character from Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody books, and one of her brothers is Ramses, after a character from the same series. The last two males are named Fred and George, after the Weasley twins.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: In book 4, Vera Cassity's husband Morty is having an affair with Hank Beauchamp. While Hank is openly gay, Morty isn't, so Hank's sister Sissy — whom Stewart Delacorte is pretty sure is also gay — pretends to be the one that Morty's with. She eventually kills Vera so Hank and Morty can be together openly, since the Beauchamps are broke and Morty can't divorce his wife like he wants without being taken to the cleaners by her.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1bbe87f7	type	Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1bbe87f7	comment	Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome: The killer in book 2 turns out to have saved the receipt for the peanut cookies that were used to poison the victims, as revealed in the last chapter. The killer in Ladies #2 is revealed to be guilty of this in the final chapter, having failed to dispose of the murder weapon. Unusually for the trope, this fact is only revealed to the audience (and the characters in-story) after they gave themselves away with their other actions in the penultimate chapter, and the Ducote sisters lampshade it when they remark on how they already knew Sondra's killer was stupid, but then he really blew it when the police find he still has the murder weapon.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Charlie is very protective of his family, especially his daughter Laura, and won't hesitate to step in and protect her, as seen in book 3.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Oscar Reilly is found crushed to death in the compact, automated shelves in the library basement in book 7.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_214c586a	type	From Stray to Pet
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_214c586a	comment	From Stray to Pet: Diesel himself, found shivering in the rain as an eight-to-ten-weeks-old kitten. Charlie rescues him, takes him to a vet to be checked out, and adopts him. In Ladies #1, while Dickce and Benjy Stephens are on their way to town to get groceries, they find a labradoodle by the side of the road, and an Abyssinian that comes running to join him. Later in the afternoon, after taking the animals to the vet's office to be checked out, Dickce meets the owner — a local farmer, who explains the two (named Peanut and Endora, respectively) were his mother's, but he was taking them to a shelter after she died (since he couldn't give them the attention they needed) and they escaped from his truck en route. Having already come to care for the two, Dickce immediately makes arrangements with Claud to adopt them.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Charlie comes to see Stewart Delacorte as a younger brother, as he admits to himself in book 4. In book 6, he notes that his coworker Melba Gilley is like the sister he never had.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Attempted in book 4, Vera Cassity tries to use her status and wealth as a library donor to get access to the Ducote family papers in the college library's archives. Charlie, however, won't back down, since the papers aren't available to the public without written permission from a member or a legal representative of the Ducote family.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: In book 4, after Vera Cassity's death, Charlie receives a letter from her that, while it doesn't lead to her killer, does reveal important information about her family.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Ladies #2 has one victim die this way, when an allergen was put into their whiskey. In book 8, the killer gives two people water bottles that have secretly had cyanide added. One, being suspicious, switches his bottle for one that the killer was going to drink from, resulting in an Accidental Murder.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_23cc7485	type	I Want Grandkids
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_23cc7485	comment	I Want Grandkids: Despite the fact that they tend to butt heads on several matters, Azalea Berry is fiercely proud of her daughter Kanesha and her accomplishments, with one exception — Azalea is disappointed that Kanesha hasn't married and given her grandchildren, which is a touchy subject between the pair. Charlie is mentioned as looking forward to being a grandfather as well. He gets his wish when, at the end of book 6, his daughter Laura informs him that she's pregnant; in book 7, his son Sean informs him that Sean's fiancee Alexandra is also expecting, so they're moving their wedding up to immediately. Laura gives birth between books 8 and 9, and Alexandra between books 9 and 10.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_25b8d93e	type	Over-the-Top Christmas Decorations
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_25b8d93e	comment	Over The Top Christmas Decorations: Book 10 has Athena's new resident Gerry Albritton filling her yard with an absurd amount of inflatable decorations a short time before Christmas. At least one person doesn't approve, since they sneak in and deflate all of them. It's later revealed it was Gerry's brother Billy Albritton, who was trying to frighten her, though it didn't work.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: Anyone who complains about Diesel being at Helen Louise's restaurant gets banned from there for good, as seen in book 2. In Ladies #4, after some of her behavior, Mary Turner coldly tells Serenity Foster that cousin or no, she is no longer welcome at Cliffwood. And that's even before it turns out Serenity had murdered her own brother and is thus headed to jail for a very long time.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: In book 2, Stewart Delacorte came to live with his grandparents at Delacorte House after his parents died when he was younger. In Ladies #2, the final chapter states that with her mother Sondra's death, little Tippy Delevan will be raised by her grandmother and great-grandmother.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_29007f20	comment	Pet Heir: Discussed but subverted in book 2, when the lawyer of the by-then deceased James Delacorte calls Charlie to meet with him about the will, and Sean Harris jokingly suggests that Delacorte might have changed his will to include Diesel as an heir. It's not the case though. Referenced again in book 5, when Sean jokingly says he doesn't want his father to die until he's made out his will. Charlie just as jokingly says he already has, and that he's left everything to Diesel, to which Sean rolls his eyes.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: In book 2, James Delacorte clearly considers all his blood relatives to be this, since his will specifies that he's kicking them out of the house and they're only being left money so they can afford new places to live.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: Nathan Gamble in Ladies #4, who's very stingy about money, wearing worn-out clothes and driving a twenty-year-old car. He's especially stingy when it comes to lending money to his family, as he refuses to let his sister have any money from her trust fund, which he manages, to pay her legal bills and try to keep her ex-husband from getting sole custody of their children. She finally murders Nathan to get the money, but once she's found out, the law prevents her from profiting from it, so it was All for Nothing. Hiram Barber, who died twenty years before the events of book 9, was a notorious skinflint who didn't like paying for much of anything, even to heat his house.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: In book 10, Charlie learns that murder victim Gerry Albritton — who'd been flirting with him more than once, though he'd never returned her interest — was transgender, having been born male but undergone surgery at least twenty years before, transitioning from Jerry Albritton to Geraldine Albritton. He mentally admits that he doesn't know a time when he's been more shocked. Later, when Melba finds out, she's just as stunned.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Used multiple times throughout the series. In book 4 in particular, Helen Louise is subject to this when Charlie informs her of what Vera Cassity had tried earlier.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Kanesha Berry in book 9. While a series regular who'd been involved in pretty much every murder investigation in the series (save in Ladies #2 and 4, which take place in other states), in this book, she's only mentioned a few times and has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance with no dialogue in the penultimate chapter.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: No shotguns or threats are involved, but in book 7, Sean Harris and his fiancee Alexandra Pendergast move their wedding up to immediately as soon as they find out Alexandra is pregnant.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: Discussed more than once, as the first two books (and Ladies #4) make mention of the fact that in Mississippi, murderers aren't allowed to profit from their crimes, so killing someone they were supposed to inherit from automatically makes them ineligible to inherit. A variant happens in book 1, when Godfrey Priest has added his supposed son Justin Wardlaw to his will, but soon figures out that Justin is actually his nephew. It's not Justin himself, but rather Justin's mother who kills Godfrey to ensure that he can't change his will again in light of this discovery. It's never confirmed in later books if Justin got his inheritance after this, due to the above law. In book 2, when James Delacorte turns up dead, it's suspected that the killer did so to speed up their inheritance. Turns out that's exactly the case. It's not a family member, as initially suspected, though — it's his butler and primary heir, Nigel Truesdale. In Ladies #1, the victims are all killed to clear the way for the murderer to inherit, the first two because their portions revert to the estate that way and the last a straight-out inheritance murder. In Ladies #4, the victim is again killed so the killer can get their hands on his money. Mentioned in book 9, where such a murder is the subject of two of Jack Pemberton's true crime novels — one where a Black Widow kills her husbands to inherit their wealth, and another where a preacher killed some people who'd left their money to his church in order to speed up the inheritance so he could use it to pay off his gambling debts.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Almost literally in book 2. Sean Harris was in a relationship with his boss, even buying her a dog as a present, but she refused to take the animal (a poodle named Dante) when she found out he came from a shelter. It's only after this that Sean finds out she was just using him. In Ladies #4, the murder victim is Nathan Gamble, cousin of Mary Turner. He turns out to be a Jerkass who'd bought out her mortgage (after she'd had to borrow money to pay for some expensive repairs to her family's ancestral home, which she runs a Bed and Breakfast out of) and planned to foreclose on her as soon as he could, throwing her out of her own house and then selling off the contents and bulldozing the place. After his death, his sister Serenity declares her intention to do the same thing as soon as the lawyers are done sorting everything out, since she figures she'll inherit his business and ownership of the mortgage. Mary, whose home and business are her life, is devastated by this news. Thankfully, the plan is thwarted by Serenity's arrest for murder, and even before that, Miss An'gel assures her that the state historical commission would have to agree to let Cliffwood be demolished, and it's highly unlikely that they would.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Diesel, who's thirty-six pounds at full growth and large even for his breed, is nevertheless a kind and loving fellow. Charlie actually uses the term "gentle giant" to describe him to a severe ailurophobe in book 5 in an effort to calm her.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: This is the motive behind the deaths in Ladies #3. Reba Dalrymple was obsessed with the idea of marrying Hadley Partridge and, knowing how close he was to his sister-in-law Callie, accused Callie of sleeping with him. Callie's husband Hamish, who was present at the time, lashed out and injured Callie, and Reba then hit her again when he left, making sure Callie was dead. Years later, when Hamish returns, Reba starts killing (or trying to kill) any woman who might be interested in him, and when she finds out he's been married for years, comes roaring up to his home and tries to murder his wife. Thankfully, she's stopped in time. Also in Ladies #3, Lottie MacLeod tries to kill Reba (and actually shoots her in the shoulder, non-fatally), for the same reason — she wants Hadley for herself. She's stopped and arrested for her attempted murder.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_377bd97c	type	False Widow
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_377bd97c	comment	False Widow: In Ladies #1, Rosabelle Sultan claims her husbands have all died. It turns out the last one had just gone overseas, and he returns for her partway through the book.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3e0a0709	type	Fur and Loathing
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3e0a0709	comment	Fur and Loathing: Vera Cassity, the thoroughly unpleasant victim in book 4, wears a mink coat when she comes to see Charlie, who reacts with disgust.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: In book 3, Charlie, Laura and Sean put together what they know and figure out that the 1984 death of retired mayor Hubert Norris, who drowned in his bathtub while drinking, was a case of this — the killer had purposely pulled his legs up until his head was underwater. The final consensus at the time was "accidental death", but Charlie eventually confirms that it was murder.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3ff57e4b	type	Required Spinoff Crossover
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3ff57e4b	comment	Required Spinoff Crossover: Southern Ladies Mysteries plays with this in that the characters are still living in the town where the action from the main series takes place, making the appearances by existing characters feel natural rather than shoehorned in. Ladies #1 has Diesel staying with the Ducote sisters in their mansion while Charlie and his family are out of town, and since they're still in Athena, a crime being committed results in series regular Kanesha Berry coming over in her role as the town's Chief Deputy Sheriff (along with her deputy Haskall Bates). Ladies #3 also takes place in Athena, so Kanesha appears again, and the sisters get to visit Charlie, Diesel and Melba Gilley at the college archives.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: Justin Wardlaw, supporting character throughout the series, learns early in book 1 that his biological father is supposedly famous writer Godfrey Priest. Godfrey ends up the book's Victim of the Week when he figures out he was lied to and who Justin's actual birth father was — it's Godfrey's older half-brother Rick Tackett, making Godfrey into Justin's uncle instead. Justin's mother, who was the one lying about Justin's parentage so that he'd inherit Godfrey's millions, is the killer. In the final chapter of book 3, Charlie receives a letter from the book's now arrested murderer, in which Sarabeth Conley (née Norris) confesses that the book's other arrested murderer, her supposed younger brother Levi, is actually her son. His father is not identified. In book 4, while researching the Ducote family, Charlie discovers the diary of Katherine Cecelia Ducote in the archives and from it learns that she was left unable to safely have children after a miscarriage, so her husband turned to Cecelia's cousin Esther (AKA "Essie Mae"). Essie Mae thus became the mother of Miss An'gel and Miss Dickce, but they were raised by Cecelia as her own. Charlie turns the diary over to the sisters by the end of the book, allowing them to learn the truth as well, while swearing never to reveal it without their say-so.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Book 9 revolves around Charlie meeting one in the form of Bill Delaney, son of Charlie's long dead uncle Delbert Collins (husband of Charlie's aunt Dottie). Delbert was married before, but left his wife after about six months and never knew she was expecting; Delaney himself didn't find out his father's true identity until after his mother died.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: In book 2, it turns out that the two major crimes (the murders of James Delacorte and Eloise Morris, and the theft of some of Delacorte's rare book collection) were committed by different people. The killer, Nigel Truesdale, did so to speed up his inheritance. The thief, Delacorte's nephew Hubert, stole part of his uncle's rare book collection to pay for pretty things for his mistress. In book 3, after the initial murder of Conner Lawton, there are further crimes committed: Charlie's daughter Laura is hit from behind in her office at work, someone tries to burn down the house, Damitra Vane is found dead with her throat cut, and a letter bomb is sent addressed to Laura. It turns out that Sarabeth Conley (née Norris) had killed Conner via suffocation because his play was going to expose her earlier murder by drowning of her father, more than thirty years ago, but the other attacks were carried out by her son Levi. Sarabeth, who was unaware of any of these attacks until Charlie and Laura mentioned them, was horrified when she realized what he'd done. In book 9, the cold case Charlie is working on — the murders of four people, twenty years ago — turns out to have been this. Hiram Barber murdered his wife and her sons by her lover after discovering their true parentage, and then his daughter Elizabeth shot him in the back when she realized what he'd done. In book 10, the two main crimes — the murder of Gerry Albritton, and the embezzling of funds from her business partner — were committed by two people, as revealed in the last chapter. Gerry was killed by her own sister, Betty Camden, while the embezzling was done by her assistant, Jincy Bruce. A third crime, the sabotage of Gerry's Christmas decorations, turns out to be the doing of yet another person: Gerry's brother Billy Albritton, who was trying to scare her out of the neighborhood.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: A downplayed version in book 5. While researching author Electra Barnes Cartwright (who is almost 100 by this point), Charlie finds that her daughter Marcella, an adult with a grown son of her own by this time, was born two months after Mr. Cartwright's death by heart attack.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: In Ladies #2, little four-year-old Tippy speaks with a lisp, portrayed as changing all "L"s in her dialogue into "W"s.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Benjy Stephens is introduced in Ladies #1, and becomes the legal ward of the Ducote sisters by the end of the book, living with them after his mother dies and his stepfather wants nothing to do with him. By Ladies #3, they're privately discussing asking him to let them formally adopt him in nine months' time (when he's been living with them for a year); in Ladies #4, Benjy's own thoughts reveal that he's come to think of Miss Dickce as a grandmother and Miss An'gel as an aunt.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Justin Wardlaw, introduced as one of Charlie's boarders in book 1 and a Recurring Character for much of the series, is absent from books 2, 7, 8 and 9, and is given an explanation each time — he's away with his family for spring break in book 2, in England for the semester in 7 and 8, and away with his family on vacation in 9. The spinoff series starts with one, as Charlie, his girlfriend Helen Louise, his children, their love partners and his boarder Stewart Delacorte are all off in Europe for a few weeks. This allows the action to focus on the Ducote sisters, who are cat-sitting for Charlie in his absence (since he can't take Diesel on the trip with him).
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4b1cb197	type	Spiteful Will
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4b1cb197	comment	Spiteful Will: When James Delacorte dies in book 2, he shows just how poorly he thought of his surviving relatives. He leaves some money to his brother's grandson Stewart and his other brother's granddaughter Cynthia, but also gives them just three months from the date of his death to move out of his house, and specifically informs Stewart that when he leaves, he may not take any furnishings he himself didn't bring into the house (something that Stewart is particularly disappointed about, as he mentions later). To his nephew Hubert (son of James' sister Daphne), he leaves a trust fund, to be managed by James' lawyer, but anything left of it when Hubert himself dies will go to Athena College to fund a scholarship in James' name. He also orders Hubert and his wife to move out of Delacorte House, leaving them a sum that can only be used on a house (including taxes). To his sister Daphne, he basically tells her to move out, and that if she chooses to go to an assisted living facility, his lawyers will help her with finding one and the estate will pay her expenses. If she moves anywhere else (such as choosing to go with her son to whatever new house he moves into), she gets nothing. Finally, he leaves everything else (save for his rare book collection, which goes to Athena College, and a sum that goes to Charlie Harris for his work in cataloguing it), including the house, to his butler (with a stipulation that when Truesdale dies, the house and estate go to the Athena County Historical Society).
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: In Ladies #4, Henry Howard Caitlin pretends to be a ghost in the Bed and Breakfast he and his wife run, moving objects around in a room that's seemingly locked. He explains that his wife is unwilling to leave the place for so much as a day, lest something go wrong while she's away, but he's sick and tired of being tied to the house all the time and wants to at least be able to take her on a vacation. He ultimately confesses the truth, and while she's initially furious, she eventually lets him explain himself and is understanding.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Peter Vanderkeller, Athena College's library director (and Charlie's boss) in the first six books, abruptly sent in a resignation letter in book 7; he is later discovered to have been murdered, and the letter was sent by his killers to delay the discovery of their crime.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4f4bbeff	type	Interspecies Friendship
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_4f4bbeff	comment	Interspecies Friendship: In book 2, Sean Harris comes to Athena from Houston, bringing his poodle Dante. Dante and Diesel quickly become fast friends, and this remains even after Stewart Delacorte becomes Charlie's new boarder and subsequently Dante's new owner (since Sean admits that Stewart really likes him and Sean himself can't give the dog the attention he needs). In Ladies #1, Dickce Ducote meets (and ultimately adopts) the labradoodle Peanut and his Abyssinian friend Endora, who are practically attached at the hip.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In book 7, Charlie corrects Oscar Reilly's pronunciation of the Ducote sisters' surname, and Reilly responds by doing everything he can to harass Charlie into quitting (including by trying to ban him from bringing Diesel to work with him), finally deciding to close the archives outright and sell off the rare book collection, ostensibly to make up a deficit in the library budget (though it's pretty obvious that his real motivation is to cut Charlie's job). Before Reilly can actually go through with this, he's killed by the real villains of the book, and Charlie is requested to take over Reilly's job as interim head of the department by the college president. Also in book 7, Cassandra Brownley, head of the library's collection development and acquisitions department, is identified as having done this to two different people. One tactfully corrected her in front of several people; Cassandra's retaliation (filling her office with plastic bugs, since she was scared of them) caused her to suffer a panic attack and break two limbs when she tripped over a chair while trying to flee them. The other went over her head to get some materials for the library that he felt were needed and she didn't; she tricked him into eating a large quantity of laxatives, which resulted in a hospital visit. In both cases, the victims left the college soon after.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_540eb459	type	The Killer Becomes the Killed
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_540eb459	comment	The Killer Becomes the Killed: Bernice Cameron, Rosabelle's second daughter in Ladies #1, is suffocated to death by her own daughter after Juanita realizes Bernice had murdered Rosabelle, her daughter-in-law Marla, and Bernice's older sister Maudine. Juanita justifies it as a case of Killing in Self-Defense, since Bernice had attacked her when confronted, and says she couldn't stand to see her mother go to jail or a mental institution for her crimes. A preemptive version in Gavin Fong in book 8, who attempts to murder one of his blackmail victims, and a woman who was working with him and could expose his crimes. His weapon of choice is poisoned water; while the woman dies of it, his first intended victim is suspicious and switches the tainted bottle with Gavin's clean one, resulting in Gavin's death.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5466745d	type	Clear Their Name
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5466745d	comment	Clear Their Name: More than a few of the books have Charlie working to clear the name of a friend or relative of his.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_54c6b2b6	type	Revisiting the Cold Case
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_54c6b2b6	comment	Revisiting the Cold Case: Book 9 is focused on this, as Charlie and true crime writer Jack Pemberton work together to solve the murders of a man, his wife and their two sons from twenty years ago.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_56635771	comment	Justin Wardlaw, introduced as one of Charlie's boarders in book 1 and a Recurring Character for much of the series, is absent from books 2, 7, 8 and 9, and is given an explanation each time — he's away with his family for spring break in book 2, in England for the semester in 7 and 8, and away with his family on vacation in 9.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: In book 2, it's revealed that Hubert Morris treats his wife Eloise horribly, always yelling at her if she says anything, and is seen hitting her after she returned the inventory book he'd swiped from his uncle's library, which is stopped by Sean Harris and Deputy Bates (Hubert claims she was having hysterics and he was trying to slap her into sense again, but nobody's buying it). Her cousin-by-marriage Stewart does his best to stand up for her when he sees Hubert being abusive, and has always felt she deserved better than him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: In book 2, Stewart Delacorte flirts with Sean Harris, but Sean is straight as an arrow (fortunately, he's not bothered by the attention, being more amused than anything). Sean later mentions to his father that a coworker of his, Arthur, had also hit on him but stopped when Sean made it clear he wasn't interested. In the same book, James Delacorte has been in love with his butler Nigel Truesdale for years, but Nigel is very straight.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5b04b205	type	I'm Taking Her Home with Me!
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5b04b205	comment	I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: It's mentioned in book 3 that during her visit in the Christmas between books 1 and 2, Laura Harris had threatened to catnap Diesel and take him back to California with her because she liked him so much (and the feeling was mutual). In Ladies #1, Benjy Stephens similarly remarks that he wishes he could take Diesel back to California with him, since Diesel's been so friendly towards him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: In Ladies #2, a story is told of how a woman, the night before she was to get married, was caught by the wind and thrown from her balcony to her death. Later, when Sondra Delevan is found dead on the lawn, it's believed she was also caught by the wind and fell to her death. Subverted when it turns out she was killed by a blow to the head and thrown off the balcony by her killer.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The Ducote sisters' mother was deathly afraid of storms, and the sisters themselves don't like them either (though it's noted that they actually worked to try and get over their fear). In book 5, Della Duffy is deathly afraid of cats — the mere sight of one, even one as gentle as Diesel, sends her into a panic attack. In Ladies #1, Maudine Pittman is deathly afraid of spiders, and suffers a fatal heart attack at the sight of rubber spiders in her bath towel, placed there by the killer. Her mother is the same, and her niece isn't too fond of them either.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: Variant in book 10, near the end of the very first chapter, when the doorbell rings and Charlie subsequently finds a box of five kittens waiting outside, with a note asking him to keep them safe, which he does.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Godfrey Priest, the Victim of the Week in book 1, is a notorious ladies' man with four ex-wives and multiple lovers over the years. His father is noted as having been one too.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_614ab353	type	Witch with a Capital "B"
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_614ab353	comment	Witch with a Capital "B": In book 3, Laura quotes another character, but censors herself because she doesn't want the language to upset her father. Ladies #1 does it too, when Rosabelle Sultan talks about her daughter-in-law Marla.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_65acf9db	comment	A preemptive version in Gavin Fong in book 8, who attempts to murder one of his blackmail victims, and a woman who was working with him and could expose his crimes. His weapon of choice is poisoned water; while the woman dies of it, his first intended victim is suspicious and switches the tainted bottle with Gavin's clean one, resulting in Gavin's death.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Discussed in Ladies #3, where Coriander Simpson mentions having had to deal with problems because her mother was black and her father was mixed-race. Part of the reason for her not wanting to come back to Athena is because she'd have to deal with further prejudice over her own marriage to a white man.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: In book 6, Charlie reads the diaries of Rachel Long, and learns of someone whom this happened to: Rachel's husband, Andrew Long III, became horrified by what he saw during The American Civil War. He deserted during Gettysburg, returned home and, soon after being scorned by his father for what the latter viewed as a cowardly act, went and hung himself from the rails of the staircase in the family's home. In book 10, Gerry Albritton's killer ends up committing suicide by cyanide to escape arrest.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Sean Robert Harris is on the receiving end from his father in book 2, after he loses his temper over a phone call from someone he never wants to hear from ever again. It leads to a Calling the Old Man Out moment, in which he lets Charlie know just how upset he is that Charlie's basically ignored him since Sean's mother died. In Ladies #1, Newton Aloysius Pittman Jr. finally calls out his grandmother, Rosabelle Sultan, on her bad behavior — he tells her she's been acting like a spoiled brat. She promptly uses this trope on him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Stewart Delacorte, introduced in book 2, is out and not shy about it.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Ladies #1 includes a pronunciation guide for the Ducote sisters' first names (pronounced ahn-JELL and Dixie, respectively) and family name (the latter is pronounced "Du/Dew-COH-tee"); in the main series, book 7 had the pronunciation being given In-Universe. It's also noted that the sisters themselves don't much like it when people mispronounce their name, and their friends tend to also make sure other people pronounce it correctly.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Marie Steverton in book 6, a history professor at Athena College who tries to throw her (metaphorical) weight around to get what she wants and, if a man refuses to comply with her wishes, she accuses him of sexism and not wanting her to "achieve anything significant" just because she's a woman. It's noted, by both men and women, that her rudeness and prejudice are the issue, and why she's so unpopular, rather than her gender.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: When Charlie Met Diesel, a short story included as a bonus feature in book 6. It's exactly what it sounds like, showing how Charlie found Diesel, wet and shivering in the parking lot of the library where he volunteers, and promptly took him to the vet to get checked out before adopting him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Vera Cassity in book 4, who threatens Charlie's job and cat when he refuses to break the rules and let her see the Ducote family papers without written permission. The Ducote sisters hear about this and have their lawyer deliver a warning. Vera then tries to hassle Charlie's girlfriend, but again, the Ducote sisters find out and step in.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: In book 3, the morning after his house is targeted by an arsonist, Charlie is visited by Kanesha Berry and informed that Damitra Vane, one of his suspects in the murder of Connor Lawton, had been found earlier with her throat cut.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: In Ladies #3, it's noted that the late Calpurnia "Callie" Partridge had always hated her first name.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License – Animal Care: Subverted — Charlie is noted as being very careful not to let Diesel eat anything that isn't good for cats, such as onions. In book 4, he lets Azalea's sister Lily know exactly what Diesel can't have, including milk, cheese, chocolate, raisins, grapes, green tomatoes, raw potatoes and the aforementioned onions. It's also noted that while Diesel loves to play with ribbon, Charlie's always careful to make sure he doesn't eat any. There's also the fact that when he found Diesel in the library parking lot, he made the vet's office his first stop to have the cat checked out rather than just taking them straight home. Miss Dickce did the same thing when she and Benjy met Peanut and Endora, and Charlie later did it for the five kittens from book 10 (whom he found on his doorstep).
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: James Delacorte in book 2 — a closeted, elderly gay man (not that he's good at hiding it; his entire family knows how he feels about his butler) who doesn't act like it in the slightest. Haskell Bates, a local deputy, is also mostly closeted and doesn't act like he's gay; the only stereotypical trait he displays is a large shoe collection.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_84d24bd	type	Ghostwriter
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_84d24bd	comment	Ghostwriter: In book 1, Charlie finds evidence that a ghostwriter has been writing novels for Godfrey Priest (starting with his sixth book), and is pretty angry at him for not getting their fair share of the money said books are bringing in. He eventually figures out the ghostwriter's identity, and during the climax, Charlie's coworker Willie Clark confirms what Charlie suspected — that he was the ghostwriter.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In book 1, Charlie is mentioned as having a second boarder named Matt, who's spending his fall semester in Madrid in order to do research for his dissertation. He's mentioned all of once and then never comes up again; by book 2, set the following spring, the second room is available for Stewart Delacorte to move into, with no mention of its previous occupant.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: Book 10 ends with Charlie learning that Gerry Albritton's murderer was found dead by self-inflicted cyanide poisoning.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Charlie's wife Jackie and aunt Dottie, who'd both died of cancer within a few weeks of one another three years before the series began.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Or cat, rather — Diesel has a knack for telling nice people from nasty ones. People he dislikes include one crook in book 2 and two Asshole Victims in book 3, and in book 7, he backs away from Oscar Reilly when they first meet, even before the man proves to be a total jerkwad, showing that Diesel's instincts are spot on. It's also inverted, as when Diesel shows trust and friendliness towards someone, it indicates that they're a good person.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: In book 2, Charlie's son Sean unexpectedly turns up at his house, and reveals he quit his job at the law firm he worked at in Houston. He eventually confesses that his boss had manipulated him, sleeping with him while getting him to do most of the work on a project, and then moving on to the next guy. He quit to get away from her after he figured out her con.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Mentioned in book 9, where Jack Pemberton briefly mentions one of his true crime novels is about a preacher who killed a couple of people who'd left money to his church, money he desperately needed to cover his gambling debts.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_939bf44a	type	Personal Effects Reveal
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_939bf44a	comment	Personal Effects Reveal: In book 2, James Delacorte's library and personal papers reveals his most recent rare book purchase — and also that someone had stolen it.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: In book 1, it's mentioned that Rick Tackett lost one of his daughters to cancer when she was about nine or ten. In book 5, it's mentioned that Charlie's Aunt Dottie's only child, a daughter named Victoria, died when she was six months old. In book 6, it's found that this happened during the Civil War era to two different families. Andrew Long III deserted the Confederate army, returned home and then hung himself out of despair after his father scorned him for his act; his father, who found the body, suffered a stroke as a result and died three days later. Also during this time, the Longs' neighbor Jasper Singletary lost his second wife and their three children when they were accidentally poisoned by Andrew Long III's wife, who'd given them a bolt of cloth that, unbeknownst to her, had been dosed with arsenic to fix the dye into the cloth. In book 9, this is key to the murder being investigated — Bill Delaney arrived too late to save his lover and their sons from being murdered by his lover's abusive husband.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Positive version in 27-year-old (as of book 1) lawyer Sean Harris, who is noted as having been closer to his mother before she died. He gets to bond more with his father in books 2 and beyond.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Willie Clark in book 1, who's pretty grouchy towards everyone but especially disdainful towards women. It also comes through in the books he wrote for Godfrey Priest, where women are often the victims of brutal violence.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: In Ladies #2, Sondra Delevan is set to marry Lance Perigold, a gay man who's not too bright, but has aspirations of being a model, in order to meet the conditions in her father's will (she inherits when she marries or turns 25, whichever comes sooner). She herself just wants to marry so she can claim her money, get out of the house and go to New York to become an actress. And then she agrees to marry her grandmother's lawyer when he claimed he wanted to take her the next day to elope, despite his age. She's killed before it happens, and it turns out he was just manipulating her so he could get his hands on her money.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9ce83619	type	The Corpse Stops Here
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9ce83619	comment	The Corpse Stops Here: In book 4, Azalea Berry becomes the main suspect after being found over the dead woman's body. Her daughter Kanesha notes that it's also politically motivated, because the sitting sheriff is up for reelection in the coming year. He thinks Kanesha, as the chief deputy sheriff, might be wanting to run against him then and thinks having a mother as a murder suspect will make her look bad and thus weaken her chances of winning.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9d7e0313	type	Attack of the Political Ad
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9d7e0313	comment	Attack of the Political Ad: Discussed in book 6. Charlie notes on the tendency of most election ads being thinly disguised attacks on the other candidate, and how in the current election for state senate, with Andrew Beckford Long competing for his now-retiring father's seat against Jasper Singletary, the candidates are running a cleaner campaign than most. That doesn't stop Long's mother from having a diary forged that would make Jasper look bad by claiming one of his ancestors was a freed slave and thus could never have been legally married to the Civil War-era Jasper Singletary (who shares his name with his descendent); it never actually gets used in the campaign before it's found out as fake.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Azalea Berry, who served as a part-time housekeeper for Charlie Harris' Aunt Dottie for years and continues in the role for Charlie after Dottie dies and Charlie inherits the house, in part since she's not ready to stop working (unusually for the trope, she also works part-time for other families). Azalea's daughter Kanesha, a deputy for the local police, is not happy about this and just wants her mother to retire, blaming Charlie for Azalea's refusal to do so.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: The villains in book 7 were embezzling from the library budget for over a decade using a phony e-book company, which they themselves had set up and then got a subscription to it for the library, allowing the college access to the e-books it provided. Except all the items were permanently checked out, and the money supposedly going to the company went straight into the villains' pocket. When the library director tried to cancel the subscription in order to reduce the library's spending, the villains killed him and faked his resignation; when his successor figured out what was going on and tried to blackmail the villains, he was killed; and a witness who tried to continue the blackmail was also killed.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Happens in the last chapter of pretty much every book, clarifying whatever wasn't already confirmed or explained in the earlier chapters.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: The first observed murder in book 7 is a cover-up for a longer-running scheme. Investigating the man's death leads to the discovery of an embezzlement scheme that lasted over a decade, plus an earlier murder that was also an attempt to cover it up.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: Literally in book 2, where James Delacorte's butler Truesdale became his boss's primary heir and then killed him to speed up the process after finding out by means of a gossipy paralegal and her aunt, the latter of whom was having an affair with one of the other heirs and shared this information with Truesdale after learning of his status. Both Sean and Kanesha Berry are rather incredulous when Charlie figures out this must have been the case, especially since two other major suspects have just been arrested with evidence that they're involved in a different crime, but that doesn't stop it from being true.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a734c20	comment	Mentioned in book 9, where such a murder is the subject of two of Jack Pemberton's true crime novels — one where a Black Widow kills her husbands to inherit their wealth, and another where a preacher killed some people who'd left their money to his church in order to speed up the inheritance so he could use it to pay off his gambling debts.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Miss Dickce Ducote's real first name is Richelle, but nobody's called her that in years. In book 4, Judianne Beuchamp and Henry Ainsworth Beuchamp IV are only referred to by their real names once each, in narration. They go by Sissy and Hank, respectively.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Cynthia Delacorte, James Delacorte's great-niece in book 2. When Charlie first meets her, he sees her as an ice queen, cold and reserved; her cousin Stewart describes her as one later on as well, since she's rather cold to essentially everyone. However, a key scene late in the book shows that her behavior is more because she's tired from working night shifts at the hospital; the stoicism completely fades when she's horrified to learn Elaine is dead and furious upon realizing who must have been responsible, leading to her providing a key piece of evidence that reveals the real killer.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: Diesel, the titular "cat in the stacks", is a massive and very intelligent 36-pound Maine Coon (a species that's naturally very large) who is said to be about half the size of a full-grown Labrador and accompanies his owner Charlie Harris everywhere on a leash and harness. The small Mississippi town they live in are still adjusting to the sight of him (and some don't even realize he's a cat at first). It's explained in-story that Charlie had found him as a stray eight-to-ten-weeks-old kitten and, due to his size, had mistaken him for an adult cat until the vet corrected him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_aed65980	comment	Nathan Gamble in Ladies #4, who's very stingy about money, wearing worn-out clothes and driving a twenty-year-old car. He's especially stingy when it comes to lending money to his family, as he refuses to let his sister have any money from her trust fund, which he manages, to pay her legal bills and try to keep her ex-husband from getting sole custody of their children. She finally murders Nathan to get the money, but once she's found out, the law prevents her from profiting from it, so it was All for Nothing.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Zig-zagged. Books 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and Ladies #1, 2 and 3, all feature multiple murders in the past and/or present, but books 1, 4 and 5, and Ladies #4, feature just one each.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: The main villain of Ladies #2 is Mirielle Champlain's lawyer Richard Thurston, who's trying to manipulate things so he can get all her money.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: Offscreen version in book 2. One of the paralegals at Q.C. Pendergrast's firm is always gossiping over the phone with her aunt, and some of the information given prompted said aunt to inform another man that he was the primary heir to his employer's fortune. An Inheritance Murder ensued.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: After being an important character in the first book, Charlie's boarder Justin Wardlaw is demoted to being offscreen for most of the rest of the series (and is outright noted as having moved out early in book 11). While it's usually explained, he's not even mentioned in books 5 and 10 (and is mentioned only once in book 6).
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Cynthia Delacorte, introduced in book 2, pretends she doesn't have one, but it's proven that she does — it prompted her to snag one of the peanut cookies that killed two other members of her family via triggering their allergic reactions. Luckily, she didn't actually eat it, and thus it becomes key evidence in proving the identity of the real killer.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Charlie, in book 8 — he'd been seen having an altercation with the victim a day or so before and is briefly considered a chief suspect.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: In book 2, Charlie is invited to James Delacorte's house to inventory his rare book collection, since Delacorte thinks a family member has stolen from him. This puts Charlie in place to investigate Delacorte's subsequent murder, which is actually committed for unrelated reasons.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_bd9beaf4	comment	Unexpected Inheritance: In book 2, James Delacorte's butler Nigel Truesdale faints when he finds out Delacorte left him almost all his money and the house. He's faking, having learned about the contents of the will in advance and murdered Delacorte to speed up the process. A variant with Charlie Harris, who is shocked to find he was named co-executor of the will. He's also surprised to find that Delacorte had specifically named him in the will, leaving Charlie the job of cataloguing Delacorte's library (a job he'd only hired Charlie for just a short while ago), including the associated salary. He also left his rare book collection to Athena College, where Charlie works.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Miss An'gel mentally expresses this opinion of the name "Lance" in Ladies #2, thinking to herself that "It sounded like a name out of a particularly torrid romance novel."
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Book 5 contains much of the text of The Mystery at Spellwood Mansion, the first in the fictional Veronica Thane series by Electra Barnes Cartwright.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: The Victim of the Week in book 6 is killed in a hit-and-run. The one responsible insists it was an accident. The fact that she borrowed her neighbor's car without their knowing and committed the crime with it, however, means the police have their doubts. In Ladies #3, Arliss McGonigal is run off the road and left in a coma; she eventually awakens, but is still injured. Later, the same person tries to run Miss An'gel off the road, but she avoids injury.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: In Ladies #2, Sondra Delevan's brand new car has its brake line cut, and she crashes into a tree. It's suspected the real target was her grandmother, who was supposed to be with her but backed out at the last minute.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Azalea and her sister Lily are almost identical, as Charlie discovers when he sees them together for the first time in book 4 — when he comes in the room and sees them standing side by side (and with their backs to him), he initially thinks he's seeing double until he gets a better look.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family: Book 9 has two examples. Delbert Collins, Charlie's long dead uncle, turned out to have been an alcoholic, though his wife Dottie managed to get him to drop it. He passed it on to his son Bill, whom he never met. In a darker example, it turns out Hiram Barber inherited mental instability from his mother, who spent part of her life in a mental hospital and died there; it's part of what led to his crossing the line and murdering his wife and the sons she had with her lover. It also turns up in his daughter, who murdered her father after these killings and later tried to kill Bill Delaney, the only witness to the crime, because she thought he was going to finally expose her.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c7aa57f5	type	Laxative Prank
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c7aa57f5	comment	Laxative Prank: Not played for laughs when it's discussed in book 7. Cassandra Brownley, head of the library's collection development and acquisitions department, is identified as having done this to one of her fellow employees who went over her head to get some materials for the library that he felt were needed and she didn't; in retaliation, she tricked him into eating a large quantity of laxatives, which resulted in his needing to go to the hospital. He left the college soon after as a result.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c819533b	comment	Rage-Breaking Point: In book 10, Milton Harville's had to deal with his wife Tammy's possessiveness of him for a long time. But when she actually calls Gerry Albritton a whore and essentially threatens to kill her if she doesn't stay away from Milton, Milton's finally had enough and threatens his wife with sending her to the state mental hospital if she doesn't stop acting like that.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: Ladies #2 sees the Ducote sisters, their ward and their pets all traveling away from Athena to visit family in Louisiana. Ladies #4 sees the same group visiting friends in Mississippi. Book 13 involves Charlie, Diesel, Helen Louise and the Ducote sisters all visiting North Carolina.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: James Delacorte's niece-in-law Eloise Morris, in book 2, who makes strange comments at random times and tends to dress up like Scarlet O'Hara. It's implied that she's genuinely mentally ill, and it's not helped by everyone except James and Stewart yelling at her whenever she says anything.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In Ladies #4, while at least some of the "hauntings" of Cliffwood (the old mansion where the story takes place) were man-made, there's some indication that there really was a ghost there, though it's never absolutely confirmed.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_cf666827	type	If I Had a Nickel...
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_cf666827	comment	If I Had a Nickel...: In book 1, the late Godfrey Priest's agent has to listen to a man complaining about the quality of literature nowadays and lamenting the commercialism of it all, how people have come to write for money over "literary merit". After chasing him off, she remarks that "If I had a dollar for every one of his kind I've met, I could retire." In Charlie's narration in book 2, when talking about how most people aren't familiar with the Maine Coon breed of cat and are confused when they see Diesel, he thinks to himself that "If I had the proverbial dime for every time someone asked me, "What is that?" I could donate a hefty sum to the library and solve some of its ongoing budget woes."
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": In book 2, when they catch Hubert Morris yelling at his cowering wife Eloise, both Sean and Deputy Bates roar "Quiet!" at him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Miss An'gel and Miss Richelle "Dickce" Ducote, who debuted in the fourth book of the original series and wind up as amateur sleuths themselves. Charlie also thinks of his late aunt Dottie as one.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In book 8, Gavin Fong's attempt to murder one of his blackmail victims via poisoned water backfires horribly. The would-be victim is suspicious and switches the tainted water with Fong's clean bottle, resulting in Fong's death.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Downplayed with Charlie; his singing isn't painful, but late in book 10, he describes his musical ability as "my inability to carry a tune in a bucket". He figures it comes from one of his parents, both of whom were the same way, as he recalls. Subverted with Sean and Laura though, as they both have pleasant singing voices.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d952cef0	type	Killing in Self-Defense
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_d952cef0	comment	Killing in Self-Defense: The murderer in Ladies #1 dies after attacking their own daughter. When she stumbled and fell mid-attack, the daughter acted quickly and smothered her with a pillow.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_df2b3ec	type	Kindly Housekeeper
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_df2b3ec	comment	Kindly Housekeeper: Azalea Berry, who was a part-time housekeeper for Charlie Harris' Aunt Dottie for years and continues in the role for Charlie after Dottie dies and Charlie inherits the house, in part since she's not ready to stop working (she also works part-time for other families); she's a bit brusquer than most examples, but still cares for him. Her friend Clementine, who works for the Ducote sisters, is also one.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e064dc5a	type	Plot Allergy
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e064dc5a	comment	Plot Allergy: In book 2, both James Delacorte and his niece-in-law Eloise are deathly allergic to peanuts, and James doesn't allow them in the house because of it. This allergy is used to kill them. Similarly, in Ladies #2, Estelle is murdered when someone puts ground-up peanuts, which she's allergic to, in her whiskey.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: In book 3, it comes out that Sarabeth Conley, née Norris, had murdered her own father when he refused to bail out her son, who was in jail for a hit-and-run.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Benjy Stephens, introduced in Ladies #1, who is in training to be a vet. He befriends Diesel easily, and is the one to see Peanut by the side of the road when he and Dickce went out to get groceries.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Charlie Harris in the main series, sisters Miss An'gel and Miss Dickce Ducote in the spinoff series.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: In book 5, Mrs. Cartwright's grandson Eugene disguises himself as his grandmother for public appearances. He also used his disguise to throw off any potential witnesses when he entered (as a man) and left (as a woman) the house of the woman he murdered.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: In Ladies #2, the Ducote sisters' cousin Mireille Champlain fakes her death by heart attack; later, after the sisters find out about this, they attend her fake funeral where she sits up in the coffin, points to her lawyer, and yells "Thief! Murderer!" at him, freaking him out and helping expose his crimes.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e52a0409	comment	In Ladies #1, Newton Aloysius Pittman Jr. finally calls out his grandmother, Rosabelle Sultan, on her bad behavior — he tells her she's been acting like a spoiled brat. She promptly uses this trope on him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: In Ladies #2, Sondra Delevan and her stepbrother Horace Mims the Third, or Trey, get as far as having a child together. Sondra refuses to marry him though, even though he's head-over-heels for her.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e9f7b815	type	Creepy Housekeeper
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_e9f7b815	comment	Creepy Housekeeper: Estelle in Ladies #2, a very superstitious woman who keeps saying the chosen date is bad luck for the wedding being planned, since there's another woman who was set to get married then and instead died the night before; she also falsely claims to have a psychic connection to Mireille Champlain and knew the instant she died. Estelle herself is already dead by the time Mirielle turns up alive and well. Sondra, the bride-to-be, can't stand her and keeps demanding that Mirielle make her leave.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: As discussed in book 10, Milton Harville's wife Tammy is very possessive of her husband, thinking every woman who so much as looks at her husband is trying to lure him away from her, even though he's clearly devoted to Tammy. It's gotten so bad that during Gerry Albritton's party, when Tammy threatens Gerry if she doesn't stay away from Milton, Milton's finally had enough and tells her that if she doesn't stop it, he'll have her committed. It's later revealed that she's mentally unstable in part due to an addiction to painkillers, though it's never explained by the end of the book if she got proper treatment for her issues.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The collection Year Round Trouble (part of the Familiar Legacy series starring a black cat named Trouble, who travels around solving mysteries) has one story where Trouble meets Diesel and works on a case with him.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	In Ladies #4, the murder victim is Nathan Gamble, cousin of Mary Turner. He turns out to be a Jerkass who'd bought out her mortgage (after she'd had to borrow money to pay for some expensive repairs to her family's ancestral home, which she runs a Bed and Breakfast out of) and planned to foreclose on her as soon as he could, throwing her out of her own house and then selling off the contents and bulldozing the place. After his death, his sister Serenity declares her intention to do the same thing as soon as the lawyers are done sorting everything out, since she figures she'll inherit his business and ownership of the mortgage. Mary, whose home and business are her life, is devastated by this news. Thankfully, the plan is thwarted by Serenity's arrest for murder, and even before that, Miss An'gel assures her that the state historical commission would have to agree to let Cliffwood be demolished, and it's highly unlikely that they would.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: Discussed in book 2, when Eloise Morris turns up dead and Charlie considers that her husband might have killed her to clear the way for him to marry the woman he's been having an affair with. It's not him though.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Initially averted with Kanesha Berry, who's annoyed that Charlie keeps getting involved in cases around Athena (and also doesn't like that her mother insists on continuing to work for him instead of retiring). Finally played straight in book 4 when she asks him to investigate on her behalf and clear her mother's name, and comes to accept his aid afterward. She's also much more reasonable when the Ducote sisters offer help in their spinoff series. Haskell Bates, a fellow deputy, also becomes friendly with Charlie and becomes one of his boarders at the end of book 7, sharing a room with another of Charlie's boarders — Bates' boyfriend Stewart Delacorte.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f1c17256	type	A Deadly Affair
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f1c17256	comment	A Deadly Affair: It's revealed in the conclusion of book 9 that Hiram Barber's wife had slept with her old flame, Bill Delaney, and he was the real father of their twin sons. Hiram responded by murdering the boys and his wife after learning this, and in the following confrontation with Bill, was shot in the back by his only biological child, his daughter Elizabeth.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Less of the former and more of the latter, but in book 5, Winston Eagleton tends to be rather... wordy. Charlie, when explaining him to his son Sean, points out that Eagleton is the type to use seven words when one would do, especially when he's excited. Sean, after meeting Eagleton himself, tells Charlie that if anything, Charlie had downplayed it.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f54f1401	type	Passed-Over Inheritance
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f54f1401	comment	Passed-Over Inheritance: In book 2, James Delacorte leaves his mansion and the majority of his money (excluding certain other bequests) to his butler, Nigel Truesdale, rather than to a direct relative. His nephew Hubert Morris (son of James' sister Daphne) is most upset, having expected to inherit the bulk of it. When it turns out Truesdale is the killer, it's suggested that the trope will be subverted and Daphne, as the next of kin, will inherit Truesdale's share.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f70710ae	type	Blackmail Backfire
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: Twice in book 7. Oscar Reilly's attempt at blackmailing the villains of the book gets him killed by them. When his former brother-in-law tries to pick up where he left off, the killers eliminate him too. Again in book 8. Gavin Fong blackmailed another man to keep him from getting a better job. This, coupled with his attempt to murder said victim later, led to his own death.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f777d4b9	type	You Got Murder
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f777d4b9	comment	You Got Murder: Charlie receives a letter bomb in book 3. Luckily, Diesel detects that something's off about it, warning Charlie away before he can set it off, and he calls the sheriff's department right away so it can be safely disposed of.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Miss Dickce, who tends to drive at least fifteen miles over the speed limit most of the time.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f9741356	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f9741356	comment	Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Charlie, who found the young Diesel as a cold, wet stray and quickly took him in. He also temporarily takes in five kittens in book 10, including an orange tabby named Ramses who is permanently gifted back to the family afterward, and is noted as having owned cats before. Charlie's daughter Laura is also very adoring of Diesel — it's mentioned that during her visit in the Christmas between books 1 and 2, she threatened to catnap Diesel and take him back to California with her because she liked him so much (and the feeling was mutual).
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In Ladies #2, the Ducote sisters' cousin Mireille Champlain fakes her death by heart attack in order to trick the man who's been trying to steal from her. In Ladies #3, it's revealed that nearly forty years before, Hadley Partridge and Coriander Simpson went overseas and married, then the two sent a telegraph to her family claiming she was dead.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_fd497706	comment	In book 8, the killer gives two people water bottles that have secretly had cyanide added. One, being suspicious, switches his bottle for one that the killer was going to drink from, resulting in an Accidental Murder.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: The Ducote sisters, who are in their eighties when the series takes place, freely refer to themselves as old spinsters, having never married — as noted in Ladies #3, they've both declined repeated proposals from their own doctor, who keeps asking both of them, for several years. Unlike most examples, they don't treat the term as an insult.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Or cat, rather — Diesel has a knack for telling nice people from nasty ones. People he dislikes include one crook in book 2 and two Asshole Victims in book 3, and in book 7, he backs away from Oscar Reilly when they first meet, even before the man proves to be a total jerkwad, showing that Diesel's instincts are spot on. It's also inverted, as when Diesel shows trust and friendliness towards someone, it indicates that they're a good person. In Ladies #4, the Ducote sisters' dog Peanut reacts with hostility to the greedy and thoroughly unpleasant Nathan Gamble.
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