Pulp Fiction, 1942 · page 86 of 116
10 Story Detective, July 1942 — page 86: what you’re looking at
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# Satan's Scandal Sheet This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring a black-and-white illustration at the top and prose text below. The story is titled "Satan's Scandal Sheet" by Russell Gray. The illustration depicts what appears to be a dramatic scene with multiple figures in an interior setting. The visible text describes Lieutenant Durkee arriving in Miami for a holiday, only to become caught up in criminal activity involving gamblers' guns. The opening paragraph establishes the scene with the narrator sitting against a coconut palm when a fur-bearing animal approaches, addressing the narrator as "Lieutenant Durkee." The page number shown is 84.
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Satan’s Scandal Shee By Russeli Gray os 14 Vi i: | from cutthroats and killers. But instead of basking in the q sunshine, he became engulfed in a crime wave of gamblers’ Lieutenant Durkee came to Miami for a holiday—a holiday | guns. WAS sitting with my back against and carried a dazzling beachrobe over a cocoanut palm, diligentiy con- one arm. It went several feet past me, ©. structing a sand pyramid between stopped dead, turned slowly, and my legs, when a fur-bearing animal charged at me with hand outstretched. came alone. It walked on two feet and “Well, well, well,” it said. “Lieu- sported flowered swimming trunks tenant Durkee!” 84 (C(O) MIGoOo S (C(O)