Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 25 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page displays the opening of a hardboiled crime story titled "Bullet Bandwagon" by Harold F. Sorensen. It includes a dramatic illustration showing what appears to be a violent confrontation, and begins the narrative prose about a private detective named Keating driving through rural farmland. The subtitle indicates Keating must board a "bullet bandwagon" (apparently involving violence or danger) to survive a deadly situation, though the full plot remains unclear from this opening section.
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By Harold F. Sorensen Author of “Hemicide Demon,” ete. For a private detective, Keating was a pretty good ringside rooter. But when the Big Timekeeper began to strike death’s gong, the only way Keating could stay for the count was to climd on the— bullet bandwagon. ‘HE car ran along smoothly at iL fifty. Keating held the wheel =~ lightly, let down the window a few turns of the crank. All along the road the fields were bare, except for long lines of stacked stalks, and the colors were everywhere crackled brown and light yellow. The air was 28 | just cold enough that it distorted ob- jects slightly, as though Keating saw them through imperfect wavy glass. It did a man good to get out for a bit. Keating opened his nostrils to the clean vigorous air. He had thought of Jake Frey. That brought Jake’s fight- er, Plummer, to mind, and Plummer CoOmicboooks Cc (C@