An Actual Report of a Book – 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories

100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, Stories selected by: Weinberg, Dzienianowicz, & Greenberg
Mystery, crime fiction 589 pages, 10th grade reading level, copyright 1994

This book is a collection of 100 short stories most 5-6 pages long and about murder and thefts. One story doesn’t even have a crime in it. And a couple goes to show why the colorblind shouldn’t be criminals. (Thought how these people didn’t know that they were colorblind, or learn to deal with it is beyond us.) Over all this was a fun read. These stories were just the right size to read in a couple minutes. There were a few that tried too hard to fit in that short length. They needed to be a few pages longer to adequately build up to the ending. Also it would have been helpful if the editors gave a little background information. A story about the Jamaican countryside in the 1930’s is going to have a different way to deal with a murder then a retirement village in modern day Florida. And some of the writers do not give a lot of background in the story, most likely because in the way it first came out in print it would not have been needed. But with 100 stories to chose between there’s a story for anyone that likes crime stories.