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

Author: Bellamy II (John Stark)
Year: 2004
Publisher: Gray & Company (Cleveland)
First Edition
Edition Details: 1st US edn.
Book Condition: F.
ISBN: 9781886228856
Price: £5.00
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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.

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