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Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction   

This course will discuss the origins of the genre, the Haycraft-Queen list, the Golden Age between WWI and WWII, and various categories within the genre (cozy police procedurals, hardboiled, HIBK, etc.) Also discussed will be reference/source materials, the pulps of the 1930s and 1940s, the paperback originals of the 1950s. There will be film clips and trivia questions.

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