It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Crime Fiction for Beginners by Gervase Shorter
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Met has assigned blonde, attractive Detective Inspector Harriet Ware to investigate the murder of Larry Barlow, a publisher found strangled in a Whitechapel alleyway. She quickly finds she has penetrated an unsuspected world in which publishers wearily fend off would-be authors whose unwanted manuscripts threaten to swamp them.Press reports of the murder alert three of the would-be authors each of whom is involved in the mystery. The three are obsessed by their writing and live as much in the plots they are weaving as in the mundane world they actually inhabit: Maud Jackson is writing romantic fiction set in the Regency period. Hector Treadgold is writing a science fiction epic. Juliet Transom writes about adventures and mystical experiences in former lives.But, in this world of would-be writers, all is very far from being what it seems ...
Crime Fiction for Beginners by Gervase Shorter is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.
This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Crime Fiction for Beginners aloud.
Crime Fiction for Beginners is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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