Download Chicago Lightning: The Collected Nathan Heller Short Stories AudioBook Free
Hard, cynical, and clever, Nathan Heller has been called "the perfect private eye", the best investigator that Chicago (where "lightning" means gunfire) has to offer. Created by New York Times best-selling novelist and Road to Perdition originator Potential Allan Collins, the traditional PI comes vibrantly to life in this collection of 13 stories, all predicated on real cases of the 1930s and '40s. In "The Blonde Tigress", Heller encounters a vicious hold-up team with a brutal woman leader, while in "Scrap" he investigates a union filming that has national implications. In "AN IDEAL Criminal offenses" he runs Hollywood to protect the lovely Thelma Todd, with tragic results. The private eye finds himself tangling with notorious mobster Mickey Cohen in a "Shoot-out On Sunset" and with Al Capone's successor, Frank Nitti, in "Screwball". Heller's camaraderie with Eliot Ness finds both men working jointly in both "The Strawberry Teardrop", in which Heller encounters America's first serial killer, and "Natural Loss of life, Inc." Heller tackles each circumstance with his trademark cynicism and humor, digging into the grimy underbelly of 20th-century America to discover the truth at any cost.
