John Stark Bellamy II

Death Ride at Euclid Beach: and More True Tales of Crime & Disaster from Cleveland's Past John Stark Bellamy II 1st edition

?Has more than its fair share of violence, sex, debauchery and reversals of fortune . . . But what emerges between the lines are stories of human suffering, stories of class struggle, stories that speak as much to the criminal mind as to the crime itself.? ? Sun Newspapers

More true tales of woe from Cleveland?s crime and disaster expert. The fifth book in John Stark Bellamy?s popular series delivers 26 accounts of Cleveland-area crimes and disasters from 1900 through 1950, including:

? The depression-era ?Blue Book Murder,? in which a swank Shaker Heights society party was interrupted by low-class thugs with deadly intentions;

? Truculent barkeep Thomas Martin, whose idea of a good time was shooting the lunch buckets out of unsuspecting laborers? hands as they came off their Whiskey Island shifts;

? A strange international photo hoax in which Lakewood lad John May Warren became ?The boy with Hitler?s face?;

? Sleepwalking Harry Krause, who dreamt one night of battling a gigantic snake but awoke to the real nightmare: he had strangled his own beloved mother in her bed;

? The shocking murder of sweet 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz in her Garfield Heights bedroom?one of Cleveland?s most baffling murder mysteries ever;

And 20 more local true stories of courage, fear, deception, treachery, tragedy, violence, and guilt. Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, Bellamy?s tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.