Dollar Bin Diva No More

[Christa Faust]

I went to the paperback show today. Sadly, there seem to be fewer and fewer dollar bins every year. That’s normally where I find the bulk of my pulps. I’m a reader, not a collector. I love beater reading copies, since that’s what I plan to do with them anyway. This year I think I only got a single book from a dollar bin. (actually it was a two dollar bin.) Everything else I really wanted was more in the 10 to 20 range, so the budget didn’t stretch as far as I would have liked. I did get some great stuff, though. The score: DEADLINE AT DAWN by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) SEVEN DAYS BEFORE DYING by Helen Nielsen THE CORRUPTERS by William Francis WAKE UP TO MURDER by Day Keene and a nonfiction boxing book from 1950 called THE BIG FIGHTS (26 Hammering Fight Stories with 34 pages of Rocking Fight Pictures!) The lust object that got away: ROUGH ON RATS by William Francis. It’s about snuff films in 40s Hollywood and it was 45 dollars. Even though the guy was willing to go down in price, it was still way too rich for this Dollar Bin Diva’s blood. Needless to say, there were a million other books I desperately wanted too, but Keith and Lisa Hot Wheels put their respective feet (or wheels) down and dragged me out, kicking and screaming. Of course, I got the ROUGH ON RATS guy’s business card first…