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The Falcon's Malteser
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The Falcon's Malteser is a 1986 British children's detective/comedy novel by Anthony Horowitz which is the first story of the Diamond Brothers series. The title is a spoof on the movie The Maltese Falcon and references the texts through many plot allusions.It's the first case for hopeless detective Tim Diamond (real name Herbert Simple), who shares an apartment in London with his younger brother Nick. A South American gangster named Johnny Naples arrives to drop off a package with no explanation of what's inside, paying Tim £200 as a thank you and leaving them with a set of directions. The boys open the parcel to find a packet of Maltesers chocolates and become suspicious, visiting the given location to find the gangster dead in his apartment. With no leads, no one to go to, and being framed for murder, the brothers encounter Tim's former boss, Police Chief Snape and his aggressive partner Boyle, a lounge singer named Lauren Bacardi, an underworld crime boss known only as 'The Fat Man', and two German hitmen named Gott and Himmel.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Malteser was later adapted into a movie named Just Ask For Diamond in 1988 and is said to be made into a stage play sometime in the 2010s. Was later followed by Public Enemy Number Two in 1991. | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Tim picks up the gun at the scene of a murder twice. The first time was with Johnny Naples and Tim and Nick have this conversation after their arrest: | |
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Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: The climax at the graveyard. | |
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Adults Are Useless: Nick manages to work out the villain's motives, whereas Tim picks up a smoking gun at a murder scene twice and is jailed. | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Tim calling gangster Naples "Mr Nipples", "Mr Navels" and "Mr Venice". | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Although, it's kinda hard to tell that it is the '80s because there aren't any '80s cliches. Then it really weirds you out in the next novel that came out in 1991 because nothing changes (and continues on that theme, where the brothers are the same age in the early 2000s, when the most recent book came out. (This is not helped by the fact that it seems some of the text was revised in 1995 to bring it up to date.) The most dated elements of the book are probably a couple of the more dubious jokes, and what would now be a highly insensitive reference to the Fat Man's chauffeur's skin colour. | |
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