John Stark Bellamy II is the author of numerous books about Cleveland crime and disaster, including They Died Crawling, The Maniac in the Bushes, Death Ride at Euclid Beach, Women Behaving Badly and The Last Days of Cleveland. His other titles include Vintage Vermont Villainies, A Woman Scorned: The Murder of George Saxton, and One Man's Mirror, an anthology of the writings of legendary Cleveland journalist S. J. Kelly.