Death Ride at Euclid Beach: And More True Tales of Crime & Disaster from Cleveland’s Past

Cleveland’s crime and disaster expert is back yet again, with more true tales of woe from local history. This fifth book in John Stark Bellamy’s popular series (which includes They Died Crawling and The Killer in the Attic) delivers 26 new accounts of Cleveland-area crimes and disasters from 1900 through 1950.
The title story is about a death on the Thriller roller coaster at Euclid Beach Park. Also recounted are such tales as the odd international hoax in which a Lakewood lad became The Boy with Hitler’s Face and one of Cleveland’s most baffling murder mysteries ever: the brutal killing of sweet 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz in her Garfield Heights bedroom.
Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, Bellamy’s tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.