 "Cheap
Hotel"
by Gerald Foster
Intimate Novels
Originally Published 1935
The back cover reads: "LOVE IN A LOBBY. Will Boyle didn't know what
to make of the cheap hotel where he had just become night clerk. Didn't
know, that is, until gorgeous Dot Kane set about giving him lessons! Dot
earned her living, and a trifle more, by making life pleasant for guests
who had a taste for night life. And while her work was not to Will's taste,
her personality fascinated him. He soon became her slave.
Other girls frequenting the hotel--including
lovely Winnie Westfall in charge of the switchboard--tried to snatch him
from Dot. For the new clerk was not only an innocent country boy; he was
also a tall and handsome one! But he clung to reckless Dot, and with her
followed a reckless path. Day by day they sank deeper into the quicksands
of depravity, until in desperation he sought to rescue both Dot and himself
by marrying her. But the pressures of her old life shattered
their happiness,
and one night he found her in the arms of another...
It was pert little Winnie who picked up the
pieces. With her ardent young devotion, she nourished Will's soul. With
her generous love she healed him. Yet Dot, in the end, bestowed an even
greater gift on the handsome, bewildered boy!"
At best, the blurbs on the back cover should
entice you to open up the book, unfortunately, there are those back covers,
like "Cheap Hotel," that give away the farm before page one.
Overall, this is a wonderful, sleazy little book--just how we like them
at the Bachelor Pad. There's really no use in giving you
a recap of the story, since the back cover blurb basically does that for
you. One thing of note is that instead of the usual lurid painted cover,
they have opted for the lurid photograph cover. It doesn't have anything
to do with the story, but nothing can beat a good picture of a buxom blonde
in a red dress.
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