Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on merging fantasy and mystery genres and the first fifty pages of an adult fantasy mystery novel. The craft paper explores different strategies authors use to navigate the tension between mystery and the supernatural, and it analyzes these strategies in three novels, Storm Front by Jim Butcher, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, and The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelynn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, all of which are mystery-fantasy novels involving the supernatural. The novel pages in the thesis are from City of Devils, which follows Kassandra Thorpe, a private investigator who receives a deal from a devil at the moment of her death to stave off her passing into the afterlife until she can solve a mystery plaguing Earth, Heaven, and Hell. Kassandra races against her undead body and an expanding series of murders while grappling with good, evil, and shaken faith.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Year dc:date.available
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Trammell, Preston
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Balazs, Thomas
- Baker, Sybil; Jordan, Joseph P., 1976-
- College of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
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dc:rights- Language dc:language
- English, eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/808
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1991