Pulp Fiction, 1950 · page 102 of 132
15 Story Detective, April 1950 — page 102: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Rope's End This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring the beginning of a short story by Alan Ritner Anderson. The page combines prose text with dramatic black-and-white illustrations, including a menacing shadowed figure at top and portrait sketches of characters. The story opens with a man named Courtney Vorst receiving shocking news from his wife Gretchen—she's cutting off his allowance. The tagline promises drama involving "playboy Vorst mixed with tough gamblers—and his wealthy wife."
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