Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 61 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 61: what you’re looking at
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# Daggers of Doom This is a story page from a pulp magazine featuring the beginning of a hardboiled crime detective story by Marty Lyle. The page includes an illustration showing Detective Gil Fenton discovering a dead Chinese man in the library of wealthy jade collector Stephen Wayne, with a homicide detective named Stacy also present. The story opens with Fenton having accepted five grand to investigate a jade collector's case, unaware he's become entangled in a murder involving "crimson currency."
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Daggers of Doom d! Marty Lyle [na body of the dead China- man was the first thing that Gil Fenton saw when he came into the library of the wealthy Stephen Wayne. Next to the China- man was another lumpy form. The man from the medical ex- aminer’s office was just starting to work on the body of the little yellow man. He was not pleasant to look at; he had been shot through the head, When Detective Gil Fenton pocketed five grand to take on the jade coliector’s case, litile did he think that he was toting | ' crimson currency. \» 59 and the bullet had come out in back. Gil turned an inquiring glance at the others. Stacy, of homicide, was sitting in a straight-backed chair and talking confidentially to Stephen Wayne. Wayne, the well-known collector of jade, seemed to be all broken up. Not so, Stacy. The homicide man was smoking one of Wayne’s ex- pensive cigars with evident relish. CORICLOO© C * CS (C@