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    Crazy, With the Papers to Prove It
    Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric and Outlandish People I've Known in 45 Years as a Sports Journalist
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    Whatever Happened to the “Paper Rex” Man?
    72 essays take a nostalgic and informative look back at the old days on Cleveland’s Near West Side
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    Toe
    Lou Groza vividly recalls a golden age of professional football that spans the sport’s most important formative years.
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    We’ll Always Have Cleveland
    The memoir tells how Les Roberts discovered Cleveland while fictionalizing it for a series of novels.
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    James Renner, author of The Serial Killer's Apprentice

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    James Renner

    James Renner is a staff writer for the alternative weekly newspaper Cleveland Scene. His film adaptation of a Stephen King story was an official selection at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival. A graduate of Kent State University, Renner lives in Akron, Ohio. He is also author of Amy: My Search for Her Killer.

    Books by James Renner

    Clevland books: The Serial Killer's Apprentice by James Renner
    The Serial Killer's Apprentice
    And 12 Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
    by James Renner

    Here are thirteen true stories about the most notorious unsolved crimes in the last half century of Northeast Ohio. Investigative reporter James Renner recaps the cold cases and attempts to crack open  . . . [Read More]

    Clevland books: Amy: My Search for Her Killer by James Renner
    Amy: My Search for Her Killer
    Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
    by James Renner

    “I fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic not long before her body was discovered lying facedown in an Ashland County wheat field. I fell for her the first time I saw that school photo TV stations flashed a  . . . [Read More]