TECH: Oh, crime? In an emergency room?

[mbarker]

Original posting 2021/7/29

Let's see. Our old friend, tv tropes (https://tvtropes.org) has a number of pages in this general area. Crime and Punishment tropes, criminals, organized crime tropes, crime fiction... hum? I suspect detective literature or mystery literature is probably where we are headed, although... oh, detective fiction!

Detective drama ... a type of mystery fiction... follows the cases of a central detective character as they investigate a crime, usually from initial investigation to arrest. Police detective or private detective, perhaps an amateur sleuth? Two main varieties, closed, where the audience doesn't know who dun it, and the open variety, where the audience has the omniscient view, and watches to see how the detective unravels it (think Columbo!).

Mystery tropes has a huge list of things you might want to consider using...

Mystery fiction, mystery story, or just plain mystery? A genre that focuses on a mysterious happening. Figuring out who dun it drives the story.

And, of course, we want to mix in an emergency room. Perhaps the victim is found in the emergency room? Or the detective does the grand reveal there? Or... up to you! Still, crime and emergency rooms do kind of go together...

Yipes! Did we say this weekend as a target for the story? I hope some of you have gotten more done than I have...