{"product_id":"9781886228856","title":"Death Ride at Euclid Beach: And Other True Tales of Crime \u0026 Disaster from Cleveland's Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\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\u003cp\u003e• The depression-era “Blue Book Murder,” in which a swank Shaker Heights society party was interrupted by low-class thugs with deadly intentions; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• 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; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• A strange international photo hoax in which Lakewood lad John May Warren became “The boy with Hitler’s face”; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• 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;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The shocking murder of sweet 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz in her Garfield Heights bedroom—one of Cleveland’s most baffling murder mysteries ever; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gray \u0026 Company, Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057839554800,"sku":"9781886228856","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781886228856_p0.jpg?v=1763606563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781886228856","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}