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Title: Take the Herman Willis Challenge
Review: I took another reviewer at his word and decided to search the internet for any verification that Gilmore's source, LAPD Detective Herman Willis, really existed. And guess what? The only references out there to any Herman Willis who had anything do with law enforcement are referring to Gilmore's book, not to anything outside it. According to Gilmore, this guy was a key player in the Black Dahlia murder investigation, and yet there is no trace or him as a real-world person. It sure looks to me like Detective Herman Willis is a fictional character created by John Gilmore.If Gilmore made up Herman Willis for his book, what else did he make up?If this book was being sold as fiction, I would not have a problem with it. But there is a word for passing off a fictional story as actual fact. It's known as "lying".
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