XPE 7072B -- Mystery Writing Part Two 16 Contact Hours (Offered as needed) Former military police officer, criminal justice instructor, and mystery writer Mark Zeid leads the class in practical, hands-on exercises for writing a novel. the class will go through character and plot development as students apply the information they learned in Mystery Writing -Part One. Narrative and descriptive techniques, along with police procedures and the criminal justice system are discussed and shown how to use them in one's novel. At the end of the class, students should have enough material for completing their own novels.