My grandfather's prison
Subtitle: a story of death and deceit in 1940s Kansas City
By: Richard A. Serrano.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780826218643
Subjects: Lyons, James P., -- 1908-1948; Murder -- Missouri -- Kansas City; Murder victims -- Missouri -- Kansas City; Murder investigation -- Missouri -- Kansas City; Alcoholics -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Biography; Political corruption -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- History -- 20th century; Kansas City (Mo.) -- Politics and government; Kansas City (Mo.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Author discovers the fate of the grandfather he never knew, who had abruptly abandoned his family during the Great Depression, become a prisoner to alcohol and skid row, and, entangled in the corrupt Pendergast era of Kansas City, Missouri, had finally been murdered at the old Kansas City Municipal Farm"--Provided by publisher.