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For over twenty-five years, retired public safety professional and historian Chriss Lyon has not only walked the beat, but shot the most famous Thompson submachine guns in the world, all while documenting and researching the historic era of the “The Roaring Twenties.” Using techniques of forensic genealogy combined with investigative research, she has been able to uncover little known facts about the people and events surrounding the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, revealing them at presentations at schools, museums, genealogical, and historical societies. Her passion in Prohibition-era gangsters, maritime, law enforcement, and aviation history as well as historical weather has afforded opportunities to write articles for various magazines an ...more

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Chriss Lyon Hello Charles! Thanks for reaching out. I have heard of Aleman. I might have some documents about him, I’m not sure about Butch but there were so many…moreHello Charles! Thanks for reaching out. I have heard of Aleman. I might have some documents about him, I’m not sure about Butch but there were so many people mentioned in the documents I obtained. But I hope you enjoyed the book!!(less)
Chriss Lyon I get my inspiration from reading old newspapers and visiting cemeteries. There used to be so much more attention to details and craftsmanship 100 yea…moreI get my inspiration from reading old newspapers and visiting cemeteries. There used to be so much more attention to details and craftsmanship 100 years ago. (less)
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Stanley Kubrick
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
Stanley Kubrick

Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa

William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Arthur Conan Doyle
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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Chriss http://www.pbs.org/video/video/116941...

Link to PBS, "History Detectives" episode I made an appearance in! It is the first segment on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre Shotgun. Hope you enjoy it!


Andrea Kulman Hi & thank you for being a friend on Good Reads! I, too, am from Michigan! YAY!


Bradley Greetings from a fellow Michigander. Thank you for allowing me to become your friend. =)


Daniel
your writing is good enough so it's time you wrote your first book, Chris


message 5: by Jeff

Jeff Thanks for the add, you have already given me some ideas for my next couple of books. Looking forward to seeing more of your reviews!


message 4: by Joe

Joe Sargent Nice to meet you. Thanks for the add.


Daniel
btw Chriss, that's a good picture of you!


Daniel
Your book reviews are wonderful, Chriss, but if I might offer a slight suggestion to you, it would be that you never marry a devout Moslem man. I seriously doubt that the marriage glue would hold.


message 1: by Ed

Ed Butts Chriss, I saw your comment about a book about the Great Lakes. You might like my books: "Guiding Lights, Tragic Shadows: Tales of Great Lakes Lighthouses" and "Outlaws of the Lakes: Bootlegging and Smuggling on the Great Lakes From Colonial Times to Prohibition". Ed Butts


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