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[2016 repost: I wrote this bizarre review in 2011, leading it off with two paragraphs that have nothing to do with the book. I was hell-bent, it seemed, to force this personal story into the review whether it fit or not. Oh well, thats OK. Its an Ed Wood book, and I think he would have understood...we all can go off the rails.]When I was in kindergarten lo those many year ago I exhibited atrocious behavior at the Halloween party. I didnt like the hobo costume my parents had selected for me, and in rebellion I cried through the whole choral program rather than sing along with the rest of the kids. By the time the Christmas Party rolled around I had cleaned up my act, was entirely the little gentleman, and was thereupon awarded a Firestone Christmas songs LP (thats a vinyl record album to you youngsters) as best behaved boy at the Christmas Party.In the demented way my brain works--full of forced connections as it is--I began to think that Ed Wood had--with the writing of this pulp sleaze crime novel, Killer in Drag in 1963--improved his act greatly since penning and directing two of the worst films ever made, Glen or Glenda in 1953, and Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1959. If Plan 9... was like me at the Halloween Party, then Killer in Drag was ...well, you get the drift of my horrible forced metaphor. (I wont even go into the psychological implications of being forced to wear a costume that was not me.)Killer in Drag will never make it to any edition of the Modern Library top 100 list, make no mistake. Its poorly written in spots, and yet at no point would I confuse the prose in this book with anything in the stilted and embarrassing Plan 9.... It might even be argued that Wood is the Hemingway of sleaze. The first sentence of chapter 3 says simply: It was cold. Fuckin A. Yes, the book is rife with cliched dialogue and situations pilfered from numerous other crime novels, but what makes the book endearing and fun is the sub-cultural color and cast of underclass characters that Wood creates in telling his fast-moving, twisty tale.The storys protagonist, Glen/Glenda, is based upon Ed Wood himself, and was the subject of his 1953 film Glen or Glenda, which is a piece of cinematic history that must be seen to be believed. Wood was a heterosexual cross-dresser who wore womens underwear under his male business clothes (and supposedly wore panties and bra under his marine uniform when storming the beaches of Guadalcanal), and he channels his fetish rather marvelously into the predilections of his novels hero/heroine. Glen/Glenda is a mob assassin who gets warm feelings in the groin whenever donning his/her soft tight angora sweaters. By day our hero is Glen, a man, and by night is Glenda, a hired killer. Glendas night world is one of violence and sexual fetishism, in which she is the object of lust from every manner of man, from the beat cop to the sexually frustrated barkeep.Glenda has built up a nice stockpile of cash via her trade and is contemplating evading the tentacles of her mob clients and disappearing with it to a new life. But on the night she embarks on a routine killing of a Jewish storekeeper who wont pay his protection money something goes terribly wrong. During the course of Glen/Glendas subsequent journey to evade both the feds and the mob, she encounters a rapist farmer, brutal podunk cops on the take, a pedophile carny who likes pre-teen boys and toenail chewing (other peoples), a crooked carnival owner, a he-she carny, and a hooker with a heart of gold. Being a very convincing cross-dresser and makeup expert, Glen/Glenn finds the ability to make the old gender switcheroo to be very handy in a pinch.The book is most lovingly written when Wood gushes over Glendas wardrobe, what it looks like and how it feels to the wearer. Along with being a fetishized fashion parade, the book is an interesting examination of a person with two distinct identities, a person who considers his male and female sides as partners in crime.After much mayhem, one worries if Woods ending will be able to tie things together, and it does, beautifully. The ending, like the book itself, is pretty kick-ass, in fact.Is it an abuse of Goodreads rating system to give five stars to what is, at best, really just a three-star book? Probably, but who the fuck cares? This book was as fun as can be; pulp sleaze at its best. It makes me most anxious to read Woods 1967 followup, the allegedly sleazier, Death of a Transvestite.------(Kr@Ky 2011, with amendments in 2016)
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