Goodreads asked Armen Pogharian:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Armen Pogharian Other than what if types of things; what if I finished flight school or what if I made a different choice somewhere own life is devoid of real mystery. The same cannot be said for my family. My ancestors came to the US from the ruins of the Russian and Ottoman empires. My maternal family was part of the aristocracy in Russia and socially interacted with the Czar. As the empire disintegrated into revolution and their homes in the western part of the empire were overridden by the Germans, they fled to the US. They arrived with more money than most, but didn’t keep it for very long. One of my great-great Aunts became the girlfriend of a powerful gangster. Shortly after the law caught up with him she died under mysterious circumstances. Was her death an unfortunate accident? Was it tied to her gangster boyfriend’s activities? Could the family’s lost wealth and her death be tangled up in the Russian revolution and their connections to the aristocracy? To be fair little suggests more than an accident and many immigrants were swindled out of their possessions, but no one knows for sure. Tying gangsters, Russian royalty, and lost wealth together might not be overly original, but it could make an interesting story.

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