Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 100 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 100: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This is a **story prose page** from a hardboiled crime pulp fiction story titled "Homicide Legacy" by Kenneth McNary. The page opens a narrative about Private Detective Alan Clark, who receives a mysterious note written in red lipstick on brown wrapping paper, delivered by a street urchin. The note contains a key and promises a cash reward if Clark receives it personally at his office on Dover Street. The story's opening establishes an ominous premise: the key will "unlock the gates to hell." An illustration showing Clark examining the note accompanies the text.
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Homicide Legacy | By Kenneth McNary Private Detective Clark had been sent a key—a fatal key that would unlock the gates to q hell. i ; w / iC y, / M «| | s Romp esentutl A, psi Yall : 5 a4F 2 ‘ ‘ bi i} i ¢ LAN together in a puzzled frown. He read the note again. CLARK’S brows drew If the finder will deliver the enclosed key to Detectwe Alan Clark, personally, in his office at 108 Dover Street, he will receive a liberal cash reward. The script was a hastily penciled scrawl done with a woman’s bright red lipstick on plain brown wrapping 98 Uy VV VAL. { ist fs Vtyj ay ( red fy, Jeg, Kaye . paper. Obviously it was executed under great stress. The private detective cast a specu- lative eye on the small, grinning urchin who had brought him the note. “Where did you get this, sonny?’ he asked, and waved a dollar bill. The boy smiled as his shining eyes followed the money. “I picked it up on Christopher Street in front of the COMmicloo S CO