The Maniac in the Bushes - (Ohio) by John Bellamy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Thirteen more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster from the author of "They Died Crawling." Meet Martha Wise, the Merry Widow of Medina, who poisoned relatives because she enjoyed funerals; Cleveland Safety Director Eliot Ness and his nemesis, the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; and many other local heroes and villains.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining."</strong> -- The Plain Dealer</p><p>The second volume in Bellamy's popular series includes 13 more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including ...</p><ul><li><p>Martha Wise, Medina's not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives with arsenic--including her own husband, mother, brother, niece, and nephews--because she enjoyed attending funerals;</p></li><li><p>The legendary Torso Murders, which baffled Cleveland safety directory Eliot Ness, two Cuyahoga County coroners, and the entire Cleveland police force as they tried in vain to catch the perpetrator--whom newspapers dubbed the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run";</p></li><li><p>The unspeakably horrible Collinwood School Fire of 1908, in which 172 schoolchildren perished in panic because of obstructed fire exits;</p></li><li><p>Hammer-wielding Velma West, a big-city girl of Cleveland's Jazz Age driven to murder her small-town husband by the slow pace of life of Painesville--and her own obsession with another woman;</p></li><li><p>The Flats lumber fire of 1914, which leveled Cleveland's industrial Flats, melted bridges, and very nearly set the entire city ablaze;</p></li><li><p>The enduring mystery of ten-year-old Beverly Potts, whose puzzling disappearance from west-side Halloran Park in 1951 launched Cleveland's greatest manhunt;</p></li></ul><p>And many other local heroes and villains in these compelling tales of mayhem, melancholy, and mystery.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Bellamy . . . [is a] Homer of our homicides, wandering through dark places and remembering.-- "Free Times" (11/7/1997 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>John Bellamy II has turned crime into an art with the second of his books on local crimes and disasters . . . [He] is a thorough researcher and has mined so much definitive material, you almost believe you are reading and reliving the stories of a current crime. The characters come alive with well defined narrative strength and you are swept up in their lives.-- "The Times... Of Your Life" (11/7/1997 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining . . . John Stark Bellamy II is the historian your mother warned you about . . . he offers bad guys and wanton women, unspeakable tragedy and murder most foul . . . Strange? Yes, you can certainly say that about a lot of the tales Bellamy includes in his second (and, one can only hope, not his last) collection of Cleveland crime and catastrophe stories. Strange, but awfully entertaining.-- "The Plain Dealer" (11/7/1997 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Murder, shoot-outs, serial killers, damsels in distress, roller coasters headed to nowhere, killers in the attic, matricide, patricide, black widows . . . Cleveland had it all, as Bellamy deftly and floridly notes in page turners like this. Who knew history could be such great, bloody fun?--Laura DeMarco "The Plain Dealer" (5/15/2009 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Take the titles of his past books and you get the idea. The Maniac in the Bushes, They Died Crawling, Corpse in the Cellar, and Killer in the Attic probably reside in half the residential book cases on northern Ohio. Certainly in mine. They are a guilty pleasure if your mind works that way . . . [Bellamy's] the best writer and historian to come out of Cleveland since George Condon.-- "News Journal" (3/31/2004 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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