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Lectures on different aspects of mystery and suspense fiction from its very beginnings to the present day. Prof. Schmid focuses on key figures (the private eye, the femme fatale), the defining features and concepts (clues, poetic justice), and the variety of settings. He examines the many varieties of the genre, including hard-boiled crime fiction, police procedurals, and courtroom dramas. He also looks at the global spread of mystery and suspense...
85) The good nanny
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Literary editor Stuart Cross and his wife Andie, a film critic, hire the talented Louise to be nanny to their two young girls. Louise's perfection, however, begins to irritate the ambitious, but less accomplished Stuart and Andie, and soon the parents' jealousy gets the better of them.
88) Sandhills boy
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Born in 1926 to a struggling West Texas cowboy, Elmer toils beside the last generation of horse-riding cow-punchers. Nearsighted and convince he'll never be the cowboy his dad is, Elmer determines to become a writer. But as he struggles to persuade a disappointed father to let him attend the faraway University of Texas--and see writing as legitimate work--the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and trigger events that carry bashful Elmer to the Austrian...