City Confidential

Many more metropolises' worth of personality than virtually any piece of our present true crime epidemic. Paul Winfield's bitchy purplish narration is exquisite, with extravagant (sometimes tortured) metaphors tailored alternately to pay tribute to or take potshots at the community in question. "News of the incident spread through the D.C. 'burbs faster than Iran-Contra documents through a paper shredder."