It takes the average reader 9 hours and 40 minutes to read The Greatest Mystery Cases of Detective Henry Marquis: Complete 16 Tales in One Edition by Melville Davisson Post
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Sir Henry Marquis is the Chief of Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, who used to be in charge of the English secret service on the frontier of the Shan states, and at the time he was in Asia. Intensely interested in crime solving, Sir Henry is a linking component between the various cases, each presenting him in a new light. In some tales he's an investigator, actively involved in the case, and in some he listens to other's twisting accounts about some strange incident. Table of Contents: The Thing on the Hearth The Reward The Lost Lady The Cambered Foot The Man in the Green Hat The Wrong Sign The Fortune Teller The Hole in the Mahogany Panel The End of the Road The Last Adventure American Horses The Spread Rails The Pumpkin Coach The Yellow Flower Satire of the Sea The House by the Loch Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. Post's other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton.
The Greatest Mystery Cases of Detective Henry Marquis: Complete 16 Tales in One Edition by Melville Davisson Post is 580 pages long, and a total of 145,000 words.
This makes it 196% the length of the average book. It also has 177% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 12 minutes to read The Greatest Mystery Cases of Detective Henry Marquis: Complete 16 Tales in One Edition aloud.
The Greatest Mystery Cases of Detective Henry Marquis: Complete 16 Tales in One Edition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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