It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 by Theresa Mitchell Barbo
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The story of a teenage thief who became a killer—and how prison transformed him—in turn-of-the-century New England. On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape Cod was shattered in a flash. Soon after the crime, Snow pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was the first person ever to be sentenced...
The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 by Theresa Mitchell Barbo is 227 pages long, and a total of 58,339 words.
This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 18 minutes to read The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 aloud.
The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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