31.   Second, Reuland does not insult his readers with the usual fish market full of red herrings that clutter so many crime stories.

32.   So there was the prose, the intricate novels that just happened to be crime stories.

33.   The best moves in this dark crime story are used up early.

34.   The biggest crime story was drugs, and intravenous drug use in Baltimore occurred predominantly among African-Americans.

35.   The crime stories reported by the local news organizations these days are noticeably different, having a greater emphasis on sexual attacks and child abuse.

36.   The Coens are at their clever best with this snowbound film noir, a crazily mundane crime story set in their native Midwest.

37.   The film, which is more intertesting as a cultural record than as a crime story, is in Hindi with English subtitles.

38.   The high-tech misdeeds and meanderings of Kevin Mitnick make a great crime story.

39.   The only problem is limiting it to crime stories rather than stories about human misery in general.

40.   The scene is strange enough, but what really sets this novel apart from other crime stories is the voice of Pennington.