It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Charing Cross Mystery follows a young lawyer, Hetherwick, who happens to be on a train alongside a former police inspector who dies suddenly in front of him. The other man in the carriage runs off at the next stop and vanishes. Hetherwick takes it upon himself to investigate what turns out to be a murder. J. S. Fletcher originally wrote the story in 1922 for a weekly magazine, who called it Black Money. It was published in a single volume in 1923 as The Charing Cross Mystery and immediately had to be reprinted because of its popularity. The novel is a classic Edwardian detective novel where the plot twists and turns as more and more people become involved in the investigation, both as investigators and as suspects.
The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.
This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read The Charing Cross Mystery aloud.
The Charing Cross Mystery is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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