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Views follow the adventures of Scoop, a fictional detective from a series of mystery novels set in the 1940's. When Scoop is accidentally removed from his environment by this author, he journeys through several genres, including a fairy tale, a science fiction story, a gothic tale, an adventure novel, and a romance novel. As Scoop searches for the genre in which his character belongs, students will learn why writers choose genres; the components of each genre; the importance of the characters, setting, and style; the role of the audience, common story lines, and more.1, 1971, at 6:45 p. m. two police cars responded to the scene of an altercation outside of a beer garden in Nashville, Tennessee.  The responding officers found a man lying fatally wounded on the ground.  Twenty or thirty people were standing nearby.  Another man was brandishing a pistol.  A by-stander told Hager, one of the police officers, "Check the blue Mercury . . . there are guns in it."  A Mercury automobile was standing 15 feet away from where the victim was lying.


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Three officers thereupon went over to the Mercury and searched it.  Hager described the search as follows:


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"A. One officer found a pistol under the front seat passenger side.  Another officer found a loaded shotgun laying on the back