The Killer in the Attic by John Bellamy

The Killer in the Attic by John Bellamy

Fascinating and yes entertaining . . . often in a bizarre way that leaves the reader feeling guilty for being so entertained. -- Medina County Gazette

The fourth volume in John Stark Bellamy's classic Cleveland crime and disaster series features 26 more gruesome, horrible, tragic, and despicable--but true--tales, including:

- Love-crazed Clark Hill, who warmed up his teenage girlfriend with an overdose of Spanish Fly in her milk shake;

- The chilling Cuyahoga River scow disaster, in which 16 clinging, drowning men fought so desperately to stay afloat that they dragged each other to the dark bottom of the river;

- Doomed workmen Patrick Toolis and Patrick Cleary, buried alive in the very concrete that became Cleveland's celebrated Terminal Tower;

- Not-so-friendly Dorothy Kaplan, who deposited shards of glass in her neighbors' milk in hopes of helping slow the noisy couple down a bit;

- Mafia legend Shondor Birns, whose high-profile life of crime came to an explosive end when he started up his Lincoln Continental one fine day;

And other detailed and compelling accounts of the unspeakable.

Carleton University's John Bellamy is a Distinguished Research Professor of History. He is the author of The Law of Treason in the Later Middle Ages, Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages, The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England, and Criminal Law and Society in Late Medieval and Tudor England, among other books on criminal history.