DEATH RIDE AT EUCLID BEACH And More True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past

Softcover. The author's fifth volume in his classic Cleveland crime and disaster series, chronicling the woeful tales of : 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 labourers' 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"; "Exotic dancer" Tina Lamont, who became a city-wide symbol of stunning bravery during a holdup at the Gay Nineties night club; 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 16yr. 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. Illus. 265pp. trade size p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.