The Last Days of Cleveland - by John Bellamy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>#6 in this Cleveland crime and disaster series includes 15 stories. Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, these tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style. Meet a daring Jazz Age stick-up man, a murderous grandmother, an ageless fire chief addicted to profanity, and other unforgettable characters.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Heroes and rogues fill the pages of this book. The stories will hold your attention and chill you to the bone."</strong> -- Crime Shadow News</p><p>Cleveland's master of historical crime and disaster returns with 15 more true tales in this sixth volume of his popular series, including ...</p><ul><li><p>West Park sisters Helen, 11, and Marguerite, 10, who died after eating Rough-on-Rats brand poison in their grandmother's basement-- victims of a genetic "suicide mania," or driven to death by the cruelest caretaker since Hansel and Gretel's stepmom?</p></li><li><p>Joseph "Specs" Russell, who vaulted to fame in the summer of 1927 by staging as many as 52 stick-ups and making fools of Cleveland lawmen with his "impossible" escapes from their dragnets;</p></li><li><p>Jeanette McAdams--just unlucky, or the Lucretia Borgia of Ashtabula County? After the suspiciously similar deaths of her five siblings, neighbors began to take note of the crowded family graveyard;</p></li><li><p>Salty and ageless George Wallace, who served the city as a fireman for 62 years, 30 of them as chief, and endured to become the oldest fire chief in the world--with a mastery of incessant profanity that could be heard for four city blocks and made mule skinners blush;</p></li></ul><p>And more true stories of courage, fear, deception, and villainy--including a disaster caused by the author himself!</p><p>Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, John Stark Bellamy's tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A must for fans of local crime and disaster stories. . . The stories are at times amusing, at other times heart-wrenching . . . and always engaging.--April Helms "Hudson Hub-Times" (12/15/2010 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Bellamy does not merely recount twice-told stories. He writes like newspapermen used to write before journalists were trained to write formulaic, AP-style abomination. He writes as if his supper depended on the evening's headline . . . When Bellamy sticks to the subject, he is unimpeachable. And it's not just his knowledge. More than anything it his enthusiasm and affection for his subjects (and their city) that makes Bellamy so compelling.--Jason Lea "Newsherald.com" (11/10/2010 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Even if you live in Cleveland, you don't know as much about this city--rich in culture and history--as John Stark Bellamy II . . . He exposes the darker side of Cleveland--its murderers and petty thieves--and a few of the Forest City's heroes (firemen and policemen, not politicians). He has made a career of chronicling Cleveland's rowdy and sometimes funny past.-- "Technorati" (11/26/2010 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Heroes and rogues fill the pages of this book. The stories will hold your attention and chill you to the bone.-- "Crime Shadow News" (11/23/2010 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>There are half a dozen murders, several suicides, a shipwreck and the story of a persistent Roaring Twenties holdup man whose prison career was as engrossing as his crime spree. As Bellamy's other books are replete with tragedy on an epic scale, these "tales of woe," a phrase he likes to use, seem somehow intimate. That is, if a beheading can be intimate. The bloodless stories are just as interesting--Barbara McIntyre "Akron Beacon Journal" (12/14/2010 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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