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. -- Sun Newspapers More 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: 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 laborers 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 ; 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 16-year-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. Sometimes gruesome often surprising Bellamy s tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.