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10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 60: Pulp Fiction, 1939

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This page contains story prose from a pulp detective magazine ("10-Story Detective," visible in the header). The narrative depicts Sergeant O'Toole interrogating a young prisoner named Eddie, using emotional appeals about family and his sweetheart to encourage him to go straight. The sergeant later visits a newspaper office to pay for a classified ad, revealing that the man Eddie was apparently sought for has been found and is heading home. Below the story text is a full-page advertisement for *Everyday Photography Magazine*, a monthly publication costing 15 cents, which promoted itself as instructional material for amateur and professional photographers.

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58 hard to live down. An your little brother that you mentioned who looks up to you as his model—well, he’d just about die. He’d never get over it, kid.” HE sergeant saw the very edges of his prisoner’s lips quiver. The boy was trying mightily to keep his expression stony. But the lips told. “An’ your sweetheart, Emily— wasn’t that what you said her name was, Eddie—waiting back home for you to make good down here. As long as she lives she’ll remember what might have been. You’ll never know how hard it will be for her. She’ll for- give you, Eddie, because she loves you an’ I judge that’s the kind o’ gal she is. But always she’ll remember that once her Eddie fell.” Through the whole of the ser- geant’s last speech the boy had been struggling with himself. His eyes brimming, he turned on his captor. “Cut it out, can’t you!” he cried. “Cut it out! Leave her out of it!” 10-STORY DETECTIVE “Get hold o’ yourself, kid,” Ser- geant O’Toole said. “Sure it’s hard, but it’s true. Society’s funny that way. They seem to hold a whole fam- ily responsible for what one member of it does. It pays to go straight.” The sergeant stopped. “Well, kid,” he said, “here we are at the station. I got some work to do an’ you told me you had them pack- ages to mail. They’s a box right across the corner. S’long, Eddie!” The wide portal of the station house closed after the broad form of Sergeant O’Toole.... At two o’clock that afternoon Ser- geant O’Toole entered the Item-Trib- une building and approached the Classified desk. “T want to pay,” he told the. girl who stood there, “for that ad I ran in this morning’s paper.” “Did they find the man?” the girl asked. “Ves,” the sergeant said, “they’ve found him. He’s on his way home %” now. RAPHY MAGAZINE. mines of information such as: Question Box, and What’s New. ft Doesn’*t NMatier Whether you take photography seriously, or snap pictures just for fun, you can get the most out of this great hobby by reading EVERYDAY PHOTOG- Remember, what you see today will be gone tomorrow. There’s no way to recall it—except with a camera. So make a picture record of your family, your friends, your home town. But before you shoot, get the lowdown on the right way to take pictures by reading Ei\veryvDay ProrecRarmy REAGAZINE Every issue is crammed full of information for the beginner and for the advanced amateur. Articles by experts tell you how to take better pictures. Pictures you'll be proud to show. Pictures you can sell. Every issue contains a Forum of fine photographs as well, plus several departments which are Kamers Kinks, The Photo Critic, Photo You can’t go wrong with a magazine that sets you right Published Monthly 15° at All Newsstands CoOmMicoooks (C@