Serenata a Soraya

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Is that a portrait of Sophia Loren?

My best translation of the cover text is:

Two young men, a painter and a poet, waited for the ship “Constitution” with the ex-empress Soraya on board, in a small boat . The painter had his picture titled “The Sad Princess,” and the poet an ode to her. They hoped to be noticed and invited on board, but the sea was so strong the small ship was tipped over, the two men swam for their lives, and the picture sank. By then Constitution was very far…

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I’ll Get You Yet

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All She Had To Offer Was Trouble

From the back:

Sold Into Vice
The pretty girl reporter Steve Ashe pulled from the wrecked car was more than a crash victim. She’d been savagely beaten by hoodlums.
And when she told him The Syndicate was holding her younger sister in the vice racket, Steve set out on a reckless mission, to smash the most vicious mob west of Chicago.

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