Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 100 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 100: what you’re looking at
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# Homicide Legacy This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring both illustration and prose. The page shows the opening of "Homicide Legacy" by Kenneth McNary, a hardboiled crime story about Private Detective Alan Clark who receives a mysterious key wrapped in brown paper with a note written in red lipstick, promising a reward. The illustration depicts Clark examining the note while a street urchin watches. The text establishes an urgent mystery: the key is described as "fatal" and capable of unlocking "the gates to hell."
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Homicide Legacy By Kenneth McNary Private Detective Clark had | been sent a key—a fatal key i q that would unlock the gates to } hell. Ae) FIG LH! VRaTEL POTEET RT PAN er x CHIN Reet Af NS Eh ea teelnt LAN CLARK’S brows drew together in a puzzled frown. He read the note again. If the finder will deliver the enclosed key to Detective Alan Clark, personally, in his office at 103 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 WE y ay é; LOG Sotj+ paper. Obviously it was under great stress. y; we ’ , YW Ne y 5 /j i a ff i yA 1 ‘ Sa executed 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 98 com (E 0)(0\6) S (E@