The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction

Courtroom Drama (1x33)

Air date: Oct 10, 2013

A majority of mysteries conclude as soon as the crime is solved; once a criminal was apprehended, there was no motivation to read further. Professor Schmid discusses how the genre moved beyond this and court procedurals became not just a component of mysteries, but in some cases, the setting or secondary plot point of a story.