Description: This 4th collection of Cleveland crime and disaster features 26 more gruesome, horrible, tragic--and true--tales. Includes Mafia legend Shondor Birns, whose high-profile life of crime came to an explosive end in his Lincoln Continental, and two doomed workmen buried alive in the very concrete that became a Cleveland landmark, the Terminal Tower.
Brief description: John Stark Bellamy II is the author of six books and two anthologies about Cleveland crime and disaster. The former history specialist for the Cuyahoga County Public Library, he comes by his taste for the sensational honestly, having grown up reading stories about Cleveland crime and disaster written by his grandfather, Paul, who was editor of the Plain Dealer, and his father, Peter, who wrote for the Cleveland News and the Plain Dealer.
Review Quotes: You'd have a tough time finding somebody in town more learned--or enthusiastic--about the city's history of death and disaster.--Michael Gallucci "Cleveland Scene" (3/21/2002 12:00:00 AM)