{"product_id":"death-ride-at-euclid-beach-and-other-true-tales-of-crime-disaster-from-clevelands-past-9781886228856","title":"Death Ride at Euclid Beach: And Other True Tales of Crime \u0026 Disaster from Cleveland's Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sun Newspapers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore 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: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe depression-era \"Blue Book Murder,\" in which a \u003cb\u003eswank Shaker Heights society party\u003c\/b\u003e was interrupted by low-class thugs with deadly intentions;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTruculent barkeep\u003c\/b\u003e 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;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA strange international photo hoax in which Lakewood lad John May Warren became \u003cb\u003e\"The boy with Hitler's face\"\u003c\/b\u003e;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSleepwalking Harry Krause, who dreamt one night of battling a gigantic snake but awoke to the real nightmare: \u003cb\u003ehe had strangled his own beloved mother\u003c\/b\u003e in her bed;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe shocking murder of sweet 16-year-old \u003cb\u003eBeverly Jarosz\u003c\/b\u003e in her Garfield Heights bedroom--one of Cleveland's most baffling murder mysteries ever;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnd 20 more local true stories of \u003cb\u003ecourage, fear, deception, treachery, tragedy, violence, and guilt\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, Bellamy's tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gray \u0026amp; Company Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781886228856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.56w x 0.59d","brand":"John Bellamy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067747958965,"sku":"9781886228856","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_42311788-20c2-412d-9aa9-71270d027770.jpg?v=1690864601","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/death-ride-at-euclid-beach-and-other-true-tales-of-crime-disaster-from-clevelands-past-9781886228856","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}