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A 6 page research paper that discusses a case that occurred in Hawaii in the 1930s that was propelled by racism. Mystery fiction, specifically detective fiction, offers a means for the public to understand the logistics of police procedure and how cases are investigated, solved and culprits apprehended. In other words, people often use fiction as a means of understanding reality. Taking this perspective, the question arises as to whether or not fiction can provide a template that facilitates greater understanding of an actual, and infamous, case that occurred in Hawaii in the 1930s that is known as the “Massie Affair.” Examination of the discussion offered by Routledge (2007) concerning various subgenres of mystery/detective fiction reveals that only one of the categories discussed is remotely applicable to the Massie Affair and then only in a reverse sense. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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culprits apprehended. In other words, people often use fiction as a means of understanding reality. Taking this perspective, the question arises as to whether or not fiction can provide a
template that facilitates greater understanding of an actual, and infamous, case that occurred in Hawaii in the 1930s that is known as the "Massie Affair." Examination of the discussion offered
by Routledge (2007) concerning various subgenres of mystery/detective fiction reveals that only one of the categories discussed is remotely applicable to the Massie Affair and then only in a reverse
sense. Routledge (2007) states that by the early 1970s, the idea that a single detective, no matter how brilliant, could address and solve the complex nature of modern crime
seemed more fantastical than realistic. Therefore, the police-procedural subgenre of mystery/detective fiction emerged and gained prominence (Routledge, 2007). In the three decades since it first appeared, police-procedural fiction has become
the dominant form of "detective fiction, overturning the classical depiction of the police as incompetent" (Routledge, 2007). The real life case known as the Massie Affair can be understood as
police procedure bungled on a massive scale, due to pervasive racial and ethnic prejudice and its influence on the people involved. A film, produced and directed by Mark Zwonitzer for
PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in the summer of 1931 when a 20-year-old Navy
wife, Thalia Massie, said that she was kidnapped, driven down Ala Moana Boulevard, and dragged into a clump of bushes, where she was raped multiple times by five men and
that her assailants were Hawaiian descent (Zwontzer, 2005). In the history of Hawaii, there had never been a case of a native Hawaiian assaulting a white woman (Zwontzer, 2005). The
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