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 an interior story page from a pulp crime/detective magazine. It presents the opening of "Case of the Living Corpse" by Paul Selonke, featuring an illustration and prose text. Detective Kendall, frustrated by his commissioner's warnings about involving himself in cases outside homicide, learns that his friend Worthley has been connected to a murder involving a crooked loan-shark and a "death gun." Kendall insists Worthley is innocent despite the evidence, asserting his conviction that he knows the young man well enough to vouch for him.
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