THEY DIED CRAWLING And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe

Softcover. The first book in a series in which the author delves into 15 of the most incredible true stories of crime and disaster from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, including : A no-holds-barred account of the controversial, infamous, and sensational Sam Sheppard murder trial; The apocalyptic East Ohio Gas Company explosion and fire of 1944 and its destruction of the entire east-side Norwood-St. Clair neighbourhood; The chilling 1919 Dan Kaber murder, in which three generations of Lakewood women - mother, daughter, and grandmother - conspired to dispose of an inoffensive husband with arsenic and knife-wielding hired killers; Genius inventor Garrett A. Morgan's dramatic gas-masked rescue efforts during the gruesome 1916 waterworks collapse; The violent and unsolved murder of millionaire socialite William Lowe Rice (founder of the law firm that would become Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue), who was shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned to death under mysterious circumstances within sight of his Cleveland Heights mansion; Scandal with a "Roaring Twenties" flavour: the saga of flamboyant John Leonard Whitfield, Cleveland's most-wanted, cold-blooded cop-killer of 1923; Cleveland Electric Railway Car 642's horrifying plunge off the Central Viaduct into the Cuyahoga River in the Flats; The weird tale of industrialist Joe Gogan's trial for murdering his wife - by hitting her in the face with a bag of rat poison; and other true local stories of courage, fear, deception, mystery, violence, and guilt. Illus., with 70 photographs. 255pp. trade size p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.