Chicago Lightning

<p>Tough, cynical, and clever, Nathan Heller has been called a the perfect private eye,a the best investigator that Chicago (where a lightning means gunfire) has to offer. Created by <i>New York Times</i> bestselling novelist and <i>Road to Perdition</i> creator Max Allan Collins, the classic P.I. comes vibrantly to life in this collection of thirteen stories, all based on real cases of the 1930s and a 40s. In a The Blonde Tigress,a Heller encounters a vicious hold-up crew with a brutal female leader, while in a Scrapa he investigates a union shooting that has national implications. In a The Perfect Crimea he goes Hollywood to protect the lovely Thelma Todd, with tragic results. The private eye finds himself tangling with notorious mobster Mickey Cohen in a a Shoot-out On Sunseta and with Al Capones successor, Frank Nitti, in a Screwball.a Hellers friendship with Eliot Ness finds the two men working together in both a The Strawberry Teardrop,a in which Heller encounters Americas first serial killer, and a Natural Death, Inc.a Heller tackles each case with his trademark cynicism and humor, digging into the grimy underbelly of twentieth-century America to uncover the truth at any cost.</p>