Pulp Fiction for January

Once upon a time on this blog, I used to upload every month an inspiring cover of pulp magazine Detective Tales and comment on it. It is a tradition which I have not followed, but I have decided to do it again today, as January is about to end. So here is the Detective Tales cover for January 1948. And what a great cover it is. A bloody one too, with a murdered man stabbed by a pair of scissors (!) about to have his clothes and gun stolen by his murdered, a thuggish looking escaped convict. This is what we can safely assume from the stripy clothes the villain is wearing. I don't know what the story of this image is, but it looks like a great one. And on a side note, how strong, desperate, committed and downright ruthless you must be to be capable of stabbing someone to death with a pair of scissors?