Mafia Romance
they are women of considerable energy and initiative. Despite her apparent docility, Dorothy Stratten, the Playboy Girl whose short life and tragic death I chronicled in 1980 in the pages of the Voice, seemed destined to become somebody. The same could be said of Robin Benedict, the antiheroine of my previous book, Missing Beauty. Benedict strayed into the orbit of a pimp who noticed not only her beauty, but also her drive, and turned her into a successful escort. (Said drive had lethal consequences: Benedict was murdered at the hands of one of her lovers, an eminent research biologist.) For a woman, the basements of the underworld often offer opportunities not found in the normal world. An