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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Julia. |
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Julia. |
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* [[Could Say It, But...]]: The prologue of ''The Shortest Way To Hades'' starts by violently denying that the book is in any way fictional, before going on to talk about what would have been in the prologue if it were a novel rather than a historical document. |
* [[Could Say It, But...]]: The prologue of ''The Shortest Way To Hades'' starts by violently denying that the book is in any way fictional, before going on to talk about what would have been in the prologue if it were a novel rather than a historical document. |
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* [[Epistolary Novel]]: None of the novels are full examples of this, but all of them narrate significant portions of their action through letters. |
* [[Epistolary Novel]]: None of the novels are full examples of this, but all of them narrate significant portions of their action through letters. |
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* [[Excited Show Title]]: An in-universe example: in ''The Sirens Sang of Murder'', Julia and Catrip are writing a novel called ''Chancery!'' |
* [[Excited Show Title!]]: An in-universe example: in ''The Sirens Sang of Murder'', Julia and Catrip are writing a novel called ''Chancery!'' |
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* [[Gender Neutral Writing]] / [[The All-Concealing "I"]]: Hilary Tamar's gender is never revealed. The prologue to ''The Sybil in Her Grave'' all but comes out and says that Hilary is [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|doing this on purpose]], believing that this kind of personal detail is irrelevant to the cases that s/he is describing. |
* [[Gender Neutral Writing]] / [[The All-Concealing "I"]]: Hilary Tamar's gender is never revealed. The prologue to ''The Sybil in Her Grave'' all but comes out and says that Hilary is [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|doing this on purpose]], believing that this kind of personal detail is irrelevant to the cases that s/he is describing. |
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* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Julia and Cantrip's novel ''Chancery!'', described in ''The Sirens Sang Of Murder'', fits this to a T. The two protagonists are obvious stand-ins for them, the villains are modeled after Cantrip's romantic rival and a judge Julia is having trouble with, and so on. |
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Julia and Cantrip's novel ''Chancery!'', described in ''The Sirens Sang Of Murder'', fits this to a T. The two protagonists are obvious stand-ins for them, the villains are modeled after Cantrip's romantic rival and a judge Julia is having trouble with, and so on. |
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