A stunning true story based on real events that dominated headlines nationwide in 1938 and yet, in so many ways, deals with contemporary issues and challenging dilemmas of today. As a young man—wealthy and privileged beyond measure—stands for 11 hours on a ledge of a Manhattan hotel seventeen floors above famed 5th Avenue, the media, onlookers, and tour buses gawk at the lonely soul and are either screaming for him to jump or praying he won’t.
When Martha Beck met Raymond Fernandez it was a marriage made in Hell. Serial scammers who defrauded unsuspecting women of their life’s savings in the 1940s, they eventually graduated to murder and were reportedly responsible for 20 deaths during their carefree Bonnie & Clyde crime spree. Once arrested, their trial was one of the most sensational of the era, filling newspaper columns with lurid tales of sexual perversity and unnatural obsessions.
If Junior High School was, as it was for most, a nightmare of epic proportions, this book filled with tall tales and laugh out loud situations, will have readers recalling their own lives—and painful experiences—with a smile. As seen through the eyes of an undersized, red-haired, freckled boy of the era, the foibles of early teen life in the 1960s is given a fresh look with a full dose of humor.
