into this class were she not a best seller. Here are five from the bottom shelf:

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BLACK LACE DRAG and DEATH OF A TRANSVESTITE, by E. D. Wood, Jr. Private Edition Books, Canoga Park and Pad Library, Aqoura, Calif. (Probably the same?) Paperback, $1.25 and 95c respectively. (1967) 160 pp and 192pp.

These two books are coupled as they form one long novel together, with only a change of style to mark the break. The writer is obviously well indoctrinated on TV, and many touches lead me to think he knows quite a lot more than he has read! But, his TV "hero" has some oddities that simply do not jibe. He is, for a start, a merciless killer for "The Syndicate", a Cosa Nostra type protection racket. Second, he is willing (though not anxious) to sell himself by the night to a rich homosexual, whose murder by another precipitates a crisis in “Glenda's” life. Third, he wanted the money to finance a transsexual operation, though his virility is such as to send TWO experienced call-girls into ecstacy, and that is NOT like any TS I've heard of. But, he loves his clothes with a passion that is true to life; his personality-change is quite convincing to me, and the last thrill of his life as he goes to the electric chair is the sight of his own lipstick on a cigarette he is finishing. I'll skip the details mostly from murder to chair (he dies for the one killing he did NOT commit!) except to say that the second killer, placed on his trail by the "Syndicate", is a caricature of a TV – or of a drag queen, equally whose presence does much to spoil these books. But they DO have a good plot, and you really do get to hoping something will save Glen.

THE SATIN PRINCE, by Lee White, All Star Books, North Hollywood, Cal. Paperback, 155 pp, 95c (1966).

This one IS much worse; how far down does this sewer go, anyway? Hero is a business-man who suddenly finds himself with the TV urge (no prior history). He gets "help" from a dress-maker, who puts him in touch with a "TV" who promptly seduces him; they both are seduced by the dressmaker (a GG), and round we go! Blackmail from a homosexual on the office staff; a grand fight when the hero and "Mary" are attacked by