Gideon the Ninth
Load Bearing
Gideon the Ninth
Clues are placed where a reader can reach them and a chart drawn while reading survives contact with the ending, which is that covenant honoured rather than merely advertised.
Guide building
Trope guide
Fair Play
Fair Play is a reader-facing story pattern in the Riley Locke vocabulary. This page currently gathers 3 books with published claims and shows the reason for each placement.
- Books
- 3 Published placements
- Load-bearing
- 1 Shapes the book
- Present
- 1 Meaningful but not organizing
- Genres reached
- 2 Across canonical genre bindings
1Load-bearingThe pattern helps organize the book’s core promise.
1PresentThe pattern matters, but the book is not built around it.
1Performs-onlyThe surface resembles the trope without fully delivering its usual promise.
Riley Locke definition
What “Fair Play” means here
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Books with published reasons
3 books use this trope
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Gideon the Ninth
House of Earth and Blood
Present
House of Earth and Blood
Every hint required to solve the murder is on the page in advance and survives a second reading, which this genre almost never troubles to deliver, and the term itself awaits definition.
Fugitive Telemetry
Performs Only
Fugitive Telemetry
The form promises a reader can out-think the investigator, and this one files its conclusions only once it has privately reached them, so the covenant is advertised and never kept, on a term still unwritten.
Graph connections
Tropes often found nearby
These are co-occurrences across the books above, not claims that the terms are interchangeable.