It takes the average reader 5 hours and 31 minutes to read The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era'smost baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and...
The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins is 325 pages long, and a total of 82,875 words.
This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 32 minutes to read The Murder of the Century aloud.
The Murder of the Century 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.
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