"dime novelist" meaning in English

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          "text": "Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath 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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          "ref": "2016, Derek Catron, chapter 7, in Trail Angel: A Frontier Epic of Love & Redemption, Waterville, Me.: Five Star, Gale, page 38",
          "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., 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 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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