Chicago Lightning: The Collected Nathan Heller Short Stories
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In -The Blonde Tigress, - Heller encounters a vicious hold-up crew with a brutal female leader, while in -Scrap- he investigates a union shooting that has national implications. In -The Perfect Crime- 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 -Shoot-out On Sunset- and with Al Capone's successor, Frank Nitti, in -Screwball.- Heller's friendship with Eliot Ness finds the two men working together in both -The Strawberry Teardrop, - in which Heller encounters America's first serial killer, and -Natural Death, Inc.- 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. Tough, cynical, and clever, Nathan Heller has been called -the perfect private eye, - the best investigator that Chicago (where 'lightning' means gunfire) has to offer.