Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining. - Martha Wise, Medina\'s not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives with arsenic--including her own husband, mother, brother, niece, and nephews--because she enjoyed attending funerals; - The legendary Torso Murders, which baffled Cleveland safety directory Eliot Ness, two Cuyahoga County coroners, and the entire Cleveland police force as they tried in vain to catch the perpetrator--whom newspapers dubbed the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run; - The unspeakably horrible Collinwood School Fire of 1908, in which 172 schoolchildren perished in panic because of obstructed fire exits; - Hammer-wielding Velma West, a big-city girl of Cleveland\'s Jazz Age driven to murder her small-town husband by the slow pace of life of Painesville--and her own obsession with another woman; - The Flats lumber fire of 1914, which leveled Cleveland\'s industrial Flats, melted bridges, and very nearly set the entire city ablaze; - The enduring mystery of ten-year-old Beverly Potts, whose puzzling disappearance from west-side Halloran Park in 1951 launched Cleveland\'s greatest manhunt
And many other local heroes and villains in these compelling Tales of mayhem, melancholy, and mystery.. . . -- The Plain Dealer The second volume in Bellamy\'s popular series includes 13 More incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including .
Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining
