Eerie Examples

Here is an excellent example of the pulp writing style from The Black Mask at a climactic scene

"I closed my finger on the trigger and shot the gunman smack through the side of the head. Hard? Cold-blooded? Little respect for life? Maybe. But after all, it didn't seem to me to be the time to argue the point with the would-be killer" This is what reader's wanted and what writer's delivered.
 * Short?
 * Check. There are two full sentences in that excerpt that cover the climax and falling action of the story.
 * Violent?
 * Check. A man was shot through the side of the head!
 * Manly?
 * Double check! The hero shots a man in the head and casually justifies it saying "it didn't seem to me to be the time to argue the point with the would-be killer"