Mendocino Noir: Crimes Large and Small [Paperback]

Bruce Anderson (Author), Frederick Sternkopf (Illustrator), Mark Scaramella (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 4, 2009

The lessons in these true crime stories from Mendocino County are numerous: Don't step away from your Fort Bragg property or your neighbors may log your trees. Be careful of short people with bad parking skills. Those capable of animal cruelty are dangerous to humans as well. Murder, corruption, and arson, amusing misbehavior and dire offenses, this collection of tales relates the more disturbing, bizarre, and appalling crimes in Mendocino's recent history. The biggest lesson? When bad people and civic irresponsibility coincide, as they often do here, vast Mendocino County becomes a dangerously unpredictable place.

Product Details

• Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (July 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439243328
• ISBN-13: 978-1439243329
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,143,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time and money., January 20, 2010

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CooMan (Eureka, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mendocino Noir: Crimes Large and Small (Paperback)

Combine the authors' bad research, faulty inductive logic, misreading of police reports, and general bad taste, and what you have is a total waste of time. These guys should be writing fiction, but they don't have the talent.

What would be interesting is the "noir" tale of Bruce Anderson's involvement with Jim Jones and his right hand henchman Timothy Stoen back in the 1970's. Anderson maintained a group home for black teenagers at the same time Jones was recruiting blacks from the inner city for his suicide cult. During that time Anderson shot at his teenage inmates with a pellet gun.

Anderson's friendship with Stoen - who was an Assistant District Attorney in Mendocino County while he was also the "Peoples Temple" Attorney of Record - survives to this day. Stoen is still employed by the Mendocino County District Attorney's office. And Anderson still plies his trade of slander, liable and yellow journalism.

These guys don't have what it takes to tell the truth. Don't waste your time or money on this piece of trash.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not the best writing in the world..., December 21, 2009

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Spyrocker (Laytonville, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mendocino Noir: Crimes Large and Small (Paperback)

...but incredibly good if you are from Mendocino County and know the characters involved. I cannot imagine anyone who does not already have a fairly good understanding of Mendocino phenomena being much interested in slogging through this.