It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s bestselling novel, which critic Anthony Boucher called “one of the best detective stories of modern times” On a hot Saturday night in Manhattan, Father Duffy sits in a confessional, growing alarmed as he listens to the voice of a distraught young man who speaks of bloody hair and a dead woman and a compulsion to do things with a hammer that he does not understand. Before the priest can persuade the man to confess to the police, the killer flees, still clutching the...
A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read A Gentle Murderer aloud.
A Gentle Murderer is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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