"dime novelist" meaning in English

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          "text": "Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath^([sic]) escapes and dangerous adventures while hunting and trapping—stories which have formed the warp and woof of the exaggerations of the dime novelists—would fill a volume even larger than this.",
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          "text": "She’d heard stories of western gunfighters, heroic figures who might gun down three men before they fired a single shot. She assumed these to be the fevered imaginings of dime novelists.",
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          "ref": "2017, William W[allace] Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone, chapter 8, in The Jensen Brand, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, pages 61–62:",
          "text": "Smoke had always answered her questions honestly because he wanted her to know the truth, not what came from the fevered imaginations of whiskey-addled dime novelists, as he put it.",
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        "One who writes dime novels."
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          "text": "Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath^([sic]) escapes and dangerous adventures while hunting and trapping—stories which have formed the warp and woof of the exaggerations of the dime novelists—would fill a volume even larger than this.",
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