Pulp Fiction, 1950 · page 73 of 132
15 Story Detective, April 1950 — page 73: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an interior story page from a pulp fiction magazine featuring the beginning of a crime story titled "Nightmare Highway" by John Krill. The page includes a dramatic illustration showing several men in suits and hats gathered around vehicles on a road, with what appears to be a police or transport vehicle in the background. The visible text introduces truck driver Sam Dowell, who has been forced to stop on a lonely road by two killers seeking revenge for a State cop's death, and mentions Road Inspector Bob Emery spotting a Lamb Transport rig on a wooded curve. The story appears to be a hardboiled crime narrative.
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NIGHTMARE IGHWAY By JOHN KRILL be | i 4 t { The skinny guy raised his hand. ERY caught sight of the Lamb Truck driver Sam Dowell Transport rig as he slowed down brou cht his machine to a onthe wooded curve. He let the rig snort screeching stop ona lonely road up the sharp grade before flagging it = kill ga down. The autocar tractor pulled to a re- —while two killers r Igge IM juctant halt and the thirty-foot semi- for the death of a State COp. _ trailer followed it obediently to the side of | 73 R ie INSPECTOR BOB EM- COMMICLOOOKS (C@