It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Accidental Gangster by Harriet Goodman Grayson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Welcome to Prohibition and the Roaring Twenties. Meet Goldy Goldfarb, the "Accidental Gangster," who is recruited by Dutch Schultz to run booze for him using his fishing boats based in the Rockaways. The isolation and the miles of unpatrolled beaches made the Rockaway, NY location very desirable for criminal activities. During those years, Goldy delivers the illegal goods to a thirsty American public for his boss. A loyal soldier for a notorious gangster, Goldy carried a gun and often feared for his life. If it wasn't the Treasury Boys after him, it was his fellow gangsters. Learn how an ordinary man became involved in a criminal network. Familiar names from the era are part of the story. There's the Lower East Side contingent of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Goldy's old pals, The Brownsville Boys, are in the novel as well as the mentor to Lansky and Luciano, Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series. Based on true events in the life of author Harriet Goodman Grayson's grandfather Goldy.
Accidental Gangster by Harriet Goodman Grayson is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Accidental Gangster aloud.
Accidental Gangster is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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