16 TRAGIC ~Praise for the true crime writing of JOHN STARK BELLAMY Ii “Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining . . . John Stark Bel lamy IT is the historian your mother warned you about . . . he offers bad guys and wanton women, unspeakable tragedy and murder most foul.” The Plain Dealer “Bellamy . .. [is a] Homer of our homicides, wandering through dark places and remembering,” —Free Times “[Bellamy's books] relate, in detail, the reasons, methods, and repercus- sions of a couple of centuries’ worth of grisly acts. You'd have a tough time finding somebody in town more learned—or enthusiastic—about the city’s history of death and disaster.” —Scene Magaz ine “Blood and tears drip from the pages.” —Akron Beacon Journal “Bellamy writes with razor-edged wit and his own particular brand of charm.” —Medina County Gazette “Bellamy writes his stories with the sensibility of a late 18th century reporter ,. . Certainly, he chooses to write about crimes, 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. And Bellamy clearly relishes his criminals. Sometimes he pokes fun. Some- times he wonders at the humanity of it all, But always he tells his tales fashioned, if not antiquated, with sympathy, compassion and a good ol flair for storytelling. Sun Newspapers “Bellamy’s way with words turns history into a current event.” —Ohio Magazine “Bellamy blends details culled from old newspaper clippings, trial tran- scripts and other sources into an exploration of the city’s seamier side.” —West Life Colorful and richly detailed writing.” —Chronicle Telegram Bellamy’s morbid subject matter, vividly drawn characters and flow- ery prose are reminiscent of Victorian murder mysteries, although the subjects hit closer to home.” —Maple Heights PressCLEVELAND'S GREATEST Also by John Stark Bellamy II They Died Crawling | The Maniac in the Bushes The Corpse in the Cellar Ba The Killer in the Attic Death Ride at Euclid Beach 16 TRAGIC TRUE TALES OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION — an Anthology — JOHN STARK BELLAMY II GRAY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS CLEVELAND.