Death Ride at Euclid Beach : And Other True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past
Language: English
Published by Gray and Company, Publishers, 2004
Series: Book 3 of 8 - Cleveland Crime and Disaster Series by John Stark Bellamy II
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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 NewspapersMore 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.…
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- Title
- Death Ride at Euclid Beach : And Other True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past
- Author
- John Bellamy
- Publisher
- Gray and Company, Publishers
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 188622885X
- ISBN 13
- 9781886228856
- Series
- Book 3 of 8: Cleveland Crime and Disaster Series by John Stark Bellamy II
“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.
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