As you know, I have been (binge) watching the third season of the spy thriller The Night Agent on Netflix. It's great fun and very gripping, even though it's often derivative. But I think that sometimes, for certain genres, such as spy fiction, revisiting commonplaces and common tropes is part of the fun. So in one episode, the hero ends up in a hunting lodge. I love a good hunting lodge in adventure and spy stories. It's a perfect setting to put the hero in danger and for him to become a prey. Also, Hunter's Lodge was the name of a historical secret organisation (which I read researching to blog this post), so it works on a thematical/symbolic level too. In any case, I always get excited when I see that a spy or a crime story as a sort of hunting lodge as one of its settings.
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