How Long to Read Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370)

How Long Does it Take to Read Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370)?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 51 minutes to read Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) by Fredric Brown

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

Description

In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter—here are five of their finest works This is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade. In The Murderers (1961) by Fredric Brown, an out-of-work actor, hanging out with Beat drifters on the fringes of Hollywood, concocts a murder scheme that devolves into nightmare. This late work by a master in many genres is one of his darkest and most ingenious. Dan J. Marlowe’s The Name of the Game Is Death (1962) channels the inner life of a violent criminal who freely acknowledges the truth of a prison psychiatrist’s diagnosis: “Your values are not civilized values.” Written with unnerving emotional authenticity, the story hurtles toward an annihilating climax. Charles Williams drew on his experience in the merchant marine for his thriller Dead Calm (1963). A newlywed couple alone on a small yacht find themselves at the mercy of the mysterious survivor they have rescued from a sinking ship, in a suspenseful story that chillingly evokes the perils of the open ocean. In the beautifully told and sharply observant The Expendable Man (1963), Dorothy B. Hughes’s final masterpiece of suspense, a young man in the American Southwest runs afoul of racial assumptions after he picks up a hitchhiker who soon turns up dead. In twenty-four brilliantly constructed novels, Richard Stark (a pen name of Donald Westlake) charted the career of Parker, a hard-nosed professional thief, with rigorous clarity. The Score (1964), a stand-out in the series, finds Parker and his criminal associates hatching a plot to rob simultaneously all the jewelry stores, payroll offices, and banks in a remote Western mining town, only to come up against the human limits of even the most intricate planning. Volume features include an introduction by editor Geoffrey O'Brien (Hardboiled America), newly researched biographies of the writers and helpful notes, and an essay on textual selection.

How long is Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370)?

Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) by Fredric Brown is 867 pages long, and a total of 222,819 words.

This makes it 293% the length of the average book. It also has 272% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 17 minutes to read Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) aloud.

What Reading Level is Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370)?

Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) 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.

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