Article Translation Prompt

The Laughing Murderer
Analyze and translate the identified article from the attached magazine PDF.

Magazine: Fuzoku Soshi
Issue: July 1954
Article title: The Laughing Murderer
Author: Hirai Isao; translated from Daniel Hammett
PDF viewer pages: 235–247
Printed pages: Unknown

Inspect the entire specified PDF page range, including any continuation pages. Use PDF viewer page numbers rather than printed pagination when identifying pages.

Return valid JSON only, without a markdown code fence.

Use this structure:

{
  "article_title": "",
  "author": null,
  "pdf_page_start": null,
  "pdf_page_end": null,
  "original_language": "Japanese",
  "original_text": "",
  "translation_draft": "",
  "article_summary": "",
  "translation_notes": "",
  "uncertain_readings": [],
  "missing_or_illegible_text": []
}

Requirements:

- Transcribe the complete substantive article text from the specified pages.
- Preserve paragraph divisions when reasonably identifiable.
- Exclude unrelated advertisements, running headers, page numbers, and neighboring articles.
- Translate into accurate, readable English.
- Preserve names and specialized kinbaku or SM terminology consistently.
- Do not silently guess damaged, obscured, or illegible text.
- Identify uncertain readings in uncertain_readings.
- Identify missing or unreadable passages in missing_or_illegible_text.
- Do not invent text beyond what is visible in the PDF.
- The translation_draft should be complete rather than a summary.
- The article_summary should briefly explain the article's subject, argument, historical significance, and notable features.
- In translation_notes, explain unusual terminology, puns, historical references, names, or editorial ambiguities that may require human review.
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