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Amazon.com Review A Q&A with Max Allan Collins Question: Chicago Lightning is a story collection about private detective Nate Heller. It's a rich collection, yet the stories number only 13--meaning that since 1984 (when the first Heller book, True Detective , came out), you've published only one short story for every novel. Max Allan Collins: That wasn't intentional. I'm not a prolific short-story writer. I'm a novelist at heart, and these stories are all fairly long; little novels. Each one is a commitment--a lot of research goes into them. Like the novels, they're based on real cases. Q: The stories mostly deal with little-known crimes, whereas the novels deal with some of the major mysteries of the 20th century: the Lindbergh kidnapping in Stolen Away , the Huey Long assassination in Blood and Thunder . Why look into these smaller, more obscure cases? MAC: Well, that's the fun of it, isn't it? It shows Nate Heller in a different light. These are in fact the kind of cases that might have walked into a private eye's office in Chicago in the 1930s and '40s. And they're "small" only in the sense that they aren't well known. Some very famous names do appear--Eliot Ness is

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Author

Collins, Max Allan

Publisher

Thomas & Mercer

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612180915

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.81 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14