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Crime Story (disambiguation)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ450885 ↗
Source-derived summary

Crime fiction stories are narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation of a crime.

Crime Story may also refer to:

Crime Story (1993 film), a 1993 film starring Jackie Chan

Crime Story (2021 film), a 2021 film starring Richard Dreyfuss

Crime Story (American TV series), a 1986–1988 American television series starring Dennis Farina that aired on NBC

Crime Story (British TV series), a 1992–1995 British television series that was broadcast on ITV

Crime Story (magazine), a monthly publication that brings out stories by Indra Soundar Rajan and other writers

Crime Story (novel), a 1994 novel by New Zealand author Maurice Gee

A song by rapper DMX from his 1998 debut album It's Dark and Hell is Hot.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Crime Story (disambiguation)” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Crime, Story and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2021, 1986, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Crime, Story and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Crime Story (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.