Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 67 of 116
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# Analysis of Page This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring the beginning of "Mausoleum Mission" by Paul Adams. The page includes a dramatic illustration showing Detective Slade confronted at gunpoint in what appears to be a crypt or underground chamber, with several figures visible in the scene. Below the illustration, the story prose begins with Captain Ryan summoning Sergeant Storm Slade to his office to report a gruesome murder: Doctor Gilmore's head was severed in Longwood Cemetery the previous night. The narrative promises a mystery involving looted crypts and danger.
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Mausoleum Mission By Paul Adams Author of “Badge of Death” met i é %\ * ce ie Ss } Us ~*> i ee Slade found himself looking inte the muzzle of the gun. When Detective Slade plunged into the mystery of the looted crypts, he was one step ahead of a grisly grave himself. For the Grim Reaper was going te mix cold steel with cold ice. APTAIN RYAN strode into the “Sit down, Slade.” Ryan pointed a station-house, greeted the lieu- tenant on duty at the desk, and disappeared into his office. “Send in Slade,” he bellowed. Sergeant Storm Slade, playing pi- ~nochle in the back room, heard the order. He smoothed out the wrinkles in his double-breasted blue coat and swung into the captain’s office. TSD fat finger at a chair beside his desk. “Something hellish has happened, Slade, no kidding. Some damn fiend is loose.”’ “Yeah?” “Well, Doctor Gilmore had the top of his head carved off last night in Longwood Cemetery. I’ve seen him. His head looks like a teapot with the CONMGCOOOKS.COMN