It takes the average reader 3 hours and 39 minutes to read Booze and the Private Eye by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
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The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and...
Booze and the Private Eye by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe is 215 pages long, and a total of 54,825 words.
This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Booze and the Private Eye aloud.
Booze and the Private Eye is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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