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Elmer Apple and the Chang Gang, Or, A Microcosm of “Yellow Peril” Crime Fiction

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In the waning weeks of the dreary Depression year of 1931, twenty-eight-year-old Yee Gow Suen of the little Mississippi Delta town of Dermott, Arkansas (Pop. 2942 in the 1930 census), an avid young reader of American pulp crime fiction, was moved to compose a letter to Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine, one of the premier pulp publishers between the wars, wherein he politely but forcefully registered his complaints about the popular Mr. …
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CrimeReads broke the news in on Monday, November 24, 2025.
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