How Long to Read Country Coffins

How Long Does it Take to Read Country Coffins?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Country Coffins by Ronal Kayser

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

There had been a death at Oak Lake -- a party of fishermen had pulled the body of a woman out of a hole in the lake's ice -- and Ken Svederup was pulling on his winter armor to go out and cover the story for the Milquevais (Minn.) Globe. The long-distance phone call from San Diego, that Ken's wife Kelly had been picked up in a gambling raid in Rosarita Beach and tossed in a Tijuana pokey, made no difference to managing editor Ed Horace. Those fishermen at Oak Lake wouldn't wait forever to be interviewed and photographed in the fifteen-below cold, and thanks to Kelly's incarceration, Ed had an inducement to wave in Ken's face. More reasonably, Ed could phone the U.S. consul about Kelly while Ken covered the Oak Lake discovery. The body of a victim, a blonde, lay under a tarpaulin in the truck where the fishermen had placed it. No one recognized the dead woman, now frozen fast to the truck's floorboards, but the outfit she wore meant one thing--foul play. No one went swimming in Oak Lake in winter and drowned accidentally under the ice, and this woman wore a bathing suit. Someone clever -- but probably unaware of the fishermen's seining holes in the ice -- had expected the dead woman to remain submerged until the spring, when the bathing suit would indicate she had drowned swimming the summer before. Looking at the body, Svederup figured the victim had been dead two or three weeks. It seemed odd to Svederup when, later, he saw a light shining from one of the cottages bordering Oak Lake. The cottages here were cheap summer shacks -- in winter, about as cozy as a woodshed. But what led him across the lake, to the meeting with the jittery mink-swathed beauty in "Valhalla" cottage, was a hunt for information. If someone had buried the dead woman under the ice, it would have been at night, and the blows of the steel spud as the villain chopped a hole in the ice would have rung clear across the lake. Someone in one of the cottages would have heard... Wearily, Ken Svederup trudged across the frozen lake to "Valhalla" cottage, wondering what was with Kelly, still locked up in the Mexican clink, not knowing he was involving them both in a murder as complex and fascinating as those he solved in Dale Clark's Death Wore Fins.

How long is Country Coffins?

Country Coffins by Ronal Kayser is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Country Coffins Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Country Coffins aloud.

What Reading Level is Country Coffins?

Country Coffins is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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