{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-cleveland-and-more-true-tales-of-crime-and-disaster-from-clevelands-past-9781598510676","title":"The Last Days of Cleveland: And More True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Stark, II Bellamy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Gray \u0026amp; Company Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Gray \u0026amp; Company Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Heroes and rogues fill the pages of this book. The stories will hold your attention and chill you to the bone.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -- Crime Shadow News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleveland's master of historical crime and disaster returns with 15 more true tales in this sixth volume of his popular series, including ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWest 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph \"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;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanette 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;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalty 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;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd more true stories of courage, fear, deception, and villainy--including a disaster caused by the author himself!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes gruesome, often surprising, John Stark Bellamy's tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gray \u0026 Company Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45153541226647,"sku":"9781598510676","price":1099.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781598510676.webp?v=1767298831","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-last-days-of-cleveland-and-more-true-tales-of-crime-and-disaster-from-clevelands-past-9781598510676","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}