Explore the events and characters that make up the more unusual aspects
of Cleveland's history. A must-read for fans of fantastic, peculiar, and
nontraditional history.
Eliot Ness might come busting in and take all of you crooks to jail - or
more likely he won't, even if you've been robbing banks all over
Cleveland and bragging about it to the media, like self-proclaimed last
of the big-time bank robbers Eddie Watkins.
This isn't your Kevin Costner version of Eliot Ness, and this isn't your
standard collection of Cleveland eccentrics. Join author Ted Schwarz on
this romp celebrating bizarre misdeeds and noteworthy accomplishments of
Clevelanders large and small. Learn of the burlesque star who created
the striptease and the con woman who claimed to be Andrew Carnegie's
illegitimate daughter. Get to know present-day street musician Maurice
Reedus Jr. and the remaining cast of loving souls, offbeat characters
and one-of-a-kind Clevelanders.
As the Cleveland Plain Dealer put it in April 2009, Ted Schwarz may
be the most prolific author you've never heard of. He's been
freelancing full time for nearly forty years. During that time, he's
written well over one hundred books and more than three thousand
articles and short stories for publications throughout the world. His
books have been translated into more than a half dozen languages, and
several have been made into documentaries and/or television movies. He
has appeared on over three hundred television and radio programs in the
United States and Canada.
