Historical Crime Author to Speak at Libraries

Author John Stark Bellamy II will be appearing at area libraries to talk about his newest book, The Last Days of Cleveland and More True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past.

He will be at the Cuyahoga County Public Library Gates Mills Branch at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and at the Mayfield Branch at 7 p.m. April 12. Bellamy was working as a history specialist at the Fairview Park Regional Library when he started writing books about historical murders and disasters in the Cleveland area.

The Last Days of Cleveland is his sixth book and includes tales of two West Park sisters who died after eating rat poison, the saga of stick-up man Joseph "Specs" Russell and the author's first disaster.