Pulp Fiction, 1942 · page 42 of 116
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# Crime on His Hands - Page Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring Chapter 1 of "Crime on His Hands" by H.Q. Masur. The page includes a dramatic black-and-white illustration showing a man discovering what appears to be a dead body on the ground near a building entrance, with a woman visible in a doorway above. The prose text begins the narrator's story, explaining that his father claimed Uncle Henry was "the luckiest man in the world," recounting an anecdote about Henry finding a ten-dollar gold piece as a boy in Nebraska. The narrator mentions his own recent hardships—managing the family farm for three years through difficult weather—before the visible text cuts off at page 40.
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By H. on His Hands Q. Masur CHAPTER I fa Y FATHER used to say that Ni Uncle Henry was the luckiest man in the world. Once when he was a boy on the farm he fell into the hog’s feeding trough and came up with a ten dollar gold piece. Things like that. When he was ten he ran away from Nebraska and by the time he was a young man he headed a large investment company. I hadn’t seen Uncle Henry in a long time. Dad was dead now and I’d been running the farm by myself for the past three years. Fair years, too— except for this last one. It hit me hard. First the frost and then that darn flood. A fellow couldn’t make both ends meet nohow. OO) S} (C(O) S (C(O) =