Former Kansas City Times reporter Richard Serrano's new book, My Grandfather's Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City, never quite lives up to its opening scene. But those first paragraphs are a tough act to follow.The book opens with a guard at the Municipal Farm, then the Kansas City jail, finding Serrano's grandfather in solitary confinement dead from a snapped neck. Decades later, Serrano tries to uncover how his grandfather -- a drunk with dozens of arrests on record
