Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 56 of 148
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# Page Description This is a story opening page from a pulp detective magazine, titled "Hell Tracks of the Dragon" by Jack Archer. The page contains an illustration showing what appears to be a detective interview scene—a man and woman sitting at a desk while another man stands in a doorway. The visible prose introduces a character named Gilbert Flint of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who observes something suspicious in Chinatown involving a "six-wheel job" (likely a vehicle). The narrative establishes a mystery involving observations in San Francisco's Chinatown district and hints at potential danger ("a lurking tiger").
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
a4 , : ; r Detective AT’S funny,” muttered Gilbert Flint to the silence of his dingy, furnished room; but there was no mirth in his frosty gray eyes, as he ‘watched a touring sedan emerge from the swirling mists of Chinatown and pull to the curbing of Jackson Street. His craggy, sun-tanned face tightened into angles that were accentuated by the sudden grimness of his mouth. Crouched beside the sill of the fly-specked window that gave him a view from Stockton Street down to the Embarcadero, Gilbert Flint of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion for a moment seemed to be a lurking tiger. It was time to strike. Twice during his endless prowlings as a shabby drifter in Chinatown he had seen that six-wheel job pull up at the mouth of the alley that 54 (E@)