Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 78 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 78: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a story page from a pulp-fiction magazine featuring the opening of "Case of the Living Corpse" by Paul Selonke. The page includes a dramatic illustration showing three men in what appears to be an urgent confrontation, along with the story's opening prose. The visible text introduces Detective Kendall, who has been assigned to a homicide case despite his personal connection to a suspect named Worthley; Kendall insists his friend couldn't be responsible for murdering a loan shark, though a "death gun" has been traced to him.
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ase of the Living Corpse I By Paul Selonke When Detective Kendall horned into a job assigned to the homi- cide detail, he faced demotion— and the guns of a living cadaver. ETECTIVE KENDALL ordi- Kendall understood perfectly well. I> narily enjoyed his daily stop Somehow, though, he couldn’t make at Pete’s Place, but on this himself quit nosing around. Worthley afternoon the beer tasted flat and the had been more than a roommate these smell of the joint rankled his stomach. past months—sandy-haired, with a He was still smarting from what the square, freckled face, he had become commissioner had told him less than _ like a kid brother. And the night the a half-hour before. thing happened and the death gun was “I’m getting sick and tired of this, traced to Worthley, Kendall told head- Kendall,’”’ the commissioner had said. quarters: “The fact Worthley is a friend of “Sure I know he was having some yours doesn’t give you leave to butt trouble with Sylvester Fox. But I'll into work assigned to the homicide stake my bottom buck that he had detail. Another instance like this and nothing to do with the murder of that it’ll be a precinct beat in harness. Un- crooked loan-shark. I know the kid, derstand?” through and through.” 76 comicbooks CO