Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 37 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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# "Sleuth by Proxy" by Fred Dawson This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring an illustration and the opening prose of a mystery story. The illustrated scene depicts a tavern setting where a character named Jig Haxall, who maintains automatic phonographs in town establishments, attempts to ignore a drunk customer while servicing a music box. The story opens with Jig confronting trouble after apparently attempting to record a murder mystery using the phonograph.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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