It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read Fitted Up by George Thatcher
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Fitted Up is the remarkable true story of George Thatcher, who spent four weeks in a death cell awaiting the noose for murder following the Mitcham Co-op robbery in 1962. He was later reprieved, but would still serve eighteen years for a crime he did not commit. This is a story of how corrupt policemen ‘fitted him up’ for the crime; a story of a life of poverty in the 1930s and ’40s as a child and young man – a life of petty crime in London’s bleak 1950s underworld reminiscent of all those black and white gangster films of the period. Thatcher was a non-violent ‘peter’ man, a safe-blower. He...
Fitted Up by George Thatcher is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read Fitted Up aloud.
Fitted Up is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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