1.   But no good deed goes unpunished in noire crime stories.

2.   And crime stories would include statistics stating whether the incident was unusual for the neighborhood or actually part of a crime wave.

3.   Any police reporter working a major crime story could attest to that.

4.   At its best, the crime story is hypnotic.

5.   Bite-size surveys and musician interviews, gritty crime stories and joke roundups.

6.   A crime story about four maverick cops and their battle to find justice through injustice would have worked.

7.   A crime story is nearly always a kind of living obituary, of the accused as well as the victims.

8.   A lifelong bachelor without children, Alfred Hutton was described by his family as an intensely private man who lost himself in crime stories and romance novels.

9.   But that was only the beginning of my crime story.