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Model For Inside Detective Is Murdered!

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The cover story is the sad and (mostly) true story of the murder of 20 year old model Veronica Gedeon, who posed for several lurid and sensational pictorials for “true crime” magazines. In stories such as Party Girl, Pretty But Cheap, and I Am A White Slave she was photographed flimsily clad, beaten, smothered, and tied up. She also appeared at an Illustrators Society show for models which was raided by the New York Police Department in 1935.

The killer was eventually captured after a hotel employee recognized his photo in an issue of  True Detective Mysteries.

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The Wickedest Man

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His appetites and evils made him a living legend

From the back:

He called himself The Gentleman From Hell

Stranger than any fiction, wilder than any fancy, is this true story of the wickedest man who ever lived. That’s how Ben Hogan billed himselfthe wickedest man on earth – and lived up to every evil boast. He made and threw away fortunes. He challenged any man living to stand up to his fists. He fought the heavyweight champion of the world — and beat him. He drank whisky by the gallon — and took his women by the dozen. Here, for the first time, is the authentic history of one of the most fabulous men America — or any other country — ever produced.

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