It takes the average reader 2 hours and 16 minutes to read The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS 'Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard.' Observer Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Belting, claiming to be the missing David Wainwright - who was not killed after all, but held captive for years in a Russian prison camp. With Lady Wainwright's health fading, her inheritance is at stake, and the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Belting is shadowed by suspicion and intrigue - and then the first body is found. This atmospheric novel of family secrets, first published in 1964, is by a winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.
The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons is 134 pages long, and a total of 34,036 words.
This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 5 minutes to read The Belting Inheritance aloud.
The Belting Inheritance is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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