A general audience does not mean everyone in the world; define your audience.
I plan to produce a short story that is intended to entertain individuals who enjoy mafia or heist stories. My story will be fictional; however, it will be based in South Boston during the mid 1990s with some real characters, such as James Bulger, a local mob boss. I will need to research Bulger as well as what South Boston was like at the time. There are a lot of movies set in South Boston that I could reference for inspiration.