dime novel

But nor do they go for the dime-novel fabulism like Lipsyte's Times battery mate Arthur Daley.

Asked Vanstruther to go down with me, but one of his dime-novel heroes is ill or something of that sort, and he's off the list.

"Thank you," returned Average Jones, enormously entertained by the dime-novel setting which his host had provided for him.

"M'Gibbon's been reading some dime-novel, I suppose," said one club man.