Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 9 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring a short story titled "Hollywood Novelet" by James A. Kirch (author of "Corpse of Honor"). The page includes a dramatic illustration at the top showing several figures in what appears to be an office or indoor setting, rendered in stark black-and-white woodcut style. Below the illustration is narrative prose describing a hardboiled crime scene: a narrator observing characters named Hedgewick, Dart Ricconi, and a girl, with Dart notably unable or unwilling to laugh despite the others' amusement. The narrator ultimately decides to leave the situation and return to Madden's office.
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James A. Kirch Author of “Corpse of Honor” 5 ie fot > ERs “ | oN a oe te we: ve ie Hoilywood Novelet supposed to be atwo-bit lug that Mad- screw that face into a grin. There was den wanted eased out. just enough flesh to cover the sharp It didn’t add up right. bones ; no more. Hedgewick wound up his story with Dart had his elbows on_the table a grin and the girl leaned back to and his eyes were turned toward the laugh, clearing the view. I made the girl. While I was watching, his thin guy at first glance. lips opened a crack and he shot a few He wasn’t laughing. I’d heard about words at her and she stopped laugh- that. There was a story around back ing and stared at him. home that nobody ever saw Dart Ric- I wasn’t having any. Not on my coni laugh, and I could believe it. It salary, I wasn’t. I turned around and would be like stretching leather to went back to Madden’s office. fi CoOmicboooks (C@