How Long to Read The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop

How Long Does it Take to Read The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop by T. C. Diehl

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

Description

"You are letting the man you nearly ran over fix me up with a blind date!" After a heated back and forth discussion on the subject, Violet throws up her hands and says the word fine in a way that sounds anything but fine. Her college best friend and Budapest native, whom Violet Jones is visiting while on assignment, wins that round. Violet figures it is just one date. Meanwhile a series of art crimes has detective Jozsef Totz chasing ubiquitous blue pick up trucks all over the Hungarian countryside, but those scams are soon over shadowed when visiting art historian Violet Holiday Jones, discovers a forgery involving a multimillion dollar El Greco missing from the National Museum in Budapest.When Jones realizes that blind date Totz is the man with whom she'd recently had an unpleasant encounter on a transatlantic flight, she is apprehensive to work with him. However, as the art crime team of Jones, Totz, Dan Cako, and Suzanna Vargas shut down a forgery scam operating out of an old barn on a goose farm in the Hungarian countryside, she and Totz find they have a smoothly successful way of bouncing ideas off each other and that only professionalism keeps at bay a strong chemistry which almost boils over after she does a personal favor for the Totz family. Using her knowledge of art and science, Jones authenticates some letters Great Aunt Betts has kept for seventy years as being signed by such old Hollywood greats as Laurel and Hardy, the Warner Brothers and even Ronald Reagan. However, just as her work at the museum is nearly finished, she makes the switched El Greco discovery and begins tracking down a known forger Stan Koufax and his wife Patricia. As the team follows clues, art expert Catherine McManus arrives volunteering her help which, oddly, often steers them wrong. Totz and Jones follow clues that take them on a midnight train trip to Bucharest where they find the original El Greco has been cleverly smuggled hidden in folded portable baby crib carried by the sneaky Catherine McManus who turns out to be none other than Patricia Koufax, the forger's wife. They arrest her along with the other artful dodgers, but not before the Totz family hosts a hilarious good-bye dinner at Aunt Rosie's restaurant, and she serves her special pasta stuffed with cow's lung, which Totz describes smelling like emissions from an oil burning Junker or singed leather. The dinner, a laugh out loud affair for readers, reduces Violet Holiday Jones to tears.The novel blends sassy repartee, knowledge of the art world, forensics, and obvious growing physical chemistry between Jones and Totz whose inner conflict of further involvement when living 5000 miles apart in cities where each has family, friends, and careers. This conflict is always gnawing at the two as they must first solve the issues at hand in the underbelly of the outwardly glamorous art world.Before putting Violet Holiday Jones on the plane to Savannah, but feeling they'll see each other again before long, Totz says , "So we shut down a major art fraud scam, discovered the heist of an El Greco, tracked it down before it was sold to an unscrupulous North Korean collector, arrested the thieves, and restored the painting to the museum. Not bad for a month's work. You know what, Cupcake, I think I'll make a great cop out if you yet."

How long is The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop?

The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop by T. C. Diehl is 266 pages long, and a total of 68,096 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 12 minutes to read The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop aloud.

What Reading Level is The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop?

The Artful Dodgers and the Cupcake Cop 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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