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A 2011 Mystery Fiction/ Young Adult / Hardboiled Detective parody novel by Sean Beaudoin.Dalton Rev, an amateur Teen Detective transfers to Salt River High, a Wretched Hive where cliques function more like gangs, to solve the murder of Wesley Payne, one of the most popular kids on campus.Modeling himself after Lexington Cole, a schlocky series of detective novels, Dalton handles armies of Jerk Jocks, psychopathic punk rockers, textbook-racketeering nerds, and a faculty that operates on bribes to get to the bottom of an energy drink-fueled conspiracy. The novel features rather cartoonish imagery and outlandish characters. Its like detective noir sliding with Scott Pilgrim. |
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Axes at School: Clique tensions are so strong that there’s a gang of snipers, the Lee Harvies, who keep order. The Pinker Casket band is shown to actually be stockpiling axes for their takeover. |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The mysterious Rush soda has shades of the energy drink health scare on high school and college campuses. |
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Genre Savvy: Dalton lives by Hardboiled Detective rules. |
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Alpha Bitch: Cassiopia Jones. Subverted, its all an act. |
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The Dreaded: Lee Harvies keep the barest semblance of order with the threat of sniping. |
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Stylistic Suck: There’s a sample of a Lexington Cole novel in the extras, Mickey Spillane would be proud. |
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Hardboiled Detective: Dalton Rev imagines himself to be one, basing himself off the fictional (that is, the stories are fictional) Lexington Cole series. |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Wesley killed himself to wake up the school to how terrible the clique system was. |
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The Reveal: Too many to count, even before the end. |
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Meaningful Name: Mole |
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Driven to Suicide: The cops brush off Wesley’s death as this, Dalton thinks otherwise. He’s wrong. |
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Arc Words: You killed Wesley Payne. |
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Jerk Jock: Jeff Chuff and his clique the Balls, the local football team. |
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Did Not Get the Girl: In fact, he gets her arrested. |
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Kudzu Plot: In Noir tradition, there are wheels within wheels. |
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Femme Fatale: Cassiopia Jones, Macy Payne. |
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Brand X: Boxxmart. |
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MacGuffin: The money stolen from the principles vault. |
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Adults Are Useless: Dalton holds this view, given his experiences with his parents. |
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Xanatos Gambit: At the end, Dalton sets one up to set the two main cliques against each other. Macy hired Dalton to trigger a clique war so the Euclids could take power. |
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Teen Genius: The Euclids. |
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Unusual Euphemism: All hard swearing is replaced with similar sounding gibberish, such as bloshite, and God is replaced with Bob. It really fits with how cartoonish the world is. |
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The Mole: Mole, of course. |
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Enemy Civil War: The Balls, the football team, and Pinker Casket, the school rock band, each want to wipe each other out. |
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Relationship Reveal: a couple, the most notable being: Wesley and Chuff. |
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