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I love history and always have–to the point where it became my college major. More specifically, I relish learning about the colorful and free-wheeling history of Chicago, which along with an assortment of its suburbs has been home for all of my seven decades. After I concluded that I had written enough Nero Wolfe novels–seven in all–I began contemplating a historical mystery series. I knew tha…