Pulp Fiction, 1942 · page 77 of 116
10 Story Detective, July 1942 — page 77: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This is a story page from a pulp magazine featuring a black-and-white illustration and prose text. The story is titled "Design for a Rub-Out" by George Beltz. The illustration shows what appears to be Inspector Donovan with other figures in what looks like a crime scene or basement setting. The visible prose describes a woman of striking appearance entering what is identified as Ike's basement bar, with details about her elegant clothing and the barkeeper's observations of her. The narrative suggests a hardboiled crime fiction story, likely involving murder or criminal activity, as indicated by the title's reference to a "rub-out."
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Inspector Donovan couldn’it understand why the killer wanted to pin the rap on himself—until he got the lowdown ona... . By George Beitz HE dame was gorgeous. But there was something more than beauty in the lithe sweep of her svelte figure, accentuated by the closely modeled gown and loose fur | jacket whose sleeves were almost as_ with a greasy cloth that streaked in- wide as the jacket’s crisp, short stead of dried; watching curious!y length. Muggsy Roberts called it from half-closed eyes, “clags.”’ Wide-eved, he watched from Ike’s basement bar, with the his table, while she walked regally damp concrete steps that led to its toward him carrying the high piled entrance, illuminated at night by a coils of burnished copper hair on her crimson neon sign, had never num. head like a crown. ' bered Mrs. William Rathborne, Jr., The fat barkeep was watching too. among its habitués. Ike’s attracted Furtively, pretending to wipe the bar _ the elite of a certain type, but never 75 CoOMmcldoo S (C(O)