Pulp Fiction, 1946 · page 65 of 84
10-Story Detective Magazine, April 1946 — page 65: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring "Murder in Miniature" by Paul Dennis O'Connor. The page combines a dramatic black-and-white illustration with prose text below. The illustration depicts a crime scene involving a detective named Nelson Merrick investigating at what appears to be a doll shop. The visible text introduces the setup: Merrick's fiancée worked as a salesgirl in an unusual shop whose customers were "strictly Sing Sing" (a reference to the prison). When one customer was murdered by a doll's dagger, Nelson had to buy his way into a struggle to save his girlfriend from "homicidal puppets"—suggesting the story involves mystery and danger connected to miniature dolls in this peculiar establishment.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Murder in Miniature By Paul Dennis O’Connor Nelson Merrick’s fian- | cee was alesgirl in a weird doll shop whose customers were strictly Sing Sing. And when one of them got bumped off by a doll’s dagger, Nelson had to buy in on @ man- sized struggle to save his girl from the horror of the Nd homicidal puppets. Nelson Merrick observed, gazing around the little shop. “Well when you consider the usual junkstores down here in this artists’ colony, it’s different, at least.” Its display window bore Old English script, in gold, Martin Clayfxs, Un- usual Dolls. It was draped in black vel- vet and exhibited—under a tall glass bell—one lone doll who was possibly Marie Antoinette or the Empress Eu- genie, Nelson didn’t know or care which. ‘S THIS is where you work!’ COmiclooolk<s CO