Pulp Fiction, 1942 · page 9 of 116
10 Story Detective, July 1942 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an interior story page featuring a dramatic black-and-white illustration above prose text. The illustration depicts Detective Jim Stuart in a confrontation with an armed assailant near water, with Stuart drawing a gun as the other figure raises a club. The page header establishes the plot: a quiet town faces murder threats from an unseen killer, and Stuart encounters difficulty apprehending this mysterious criminal. The prose below the illustration continues the story, with dialogue between Stuart and another character discussing the impending murders and the danger involved. The page number appears to be 9, indicating this is mid-story content from a hardboiled crime pulp magazine.
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In that quiet peaceful town, a murder threat by an unseen hand suddenly promised wholesaie destruction. And when @ Detective Jim Stuart tried to put the cuffs on the mysterious | evildoer, he found that headquarters didn’t make irons that | could shackle an invisible scourge. Just as he raised the club, the detective pulled a gun. Perhaps two. I’m repeating myself, but I must make you see reason. There are going to be murders!” “Who,” Stuart asked gently, ‘“‘is going to murder who?” “I don’t know. There were six of q CO OR” us. Now only five. Go up there. Don’t delay. I’d go, but they’d probably kill me first and I’ve had enough.” Stuart was still skeptical, although the worried voice was beginning to make an impression on his doubts. GORlGooo S (CO im