It takes the average reader 3 hours and 18 minutes to read The Truman Gumshoes by J.K. Van Dover
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the...
The Truman Gumshoes by J.K. Van Dover is 195 pages long, and a total of 49,725 words.
This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 31 minutes to read The Truman Gumshoes aloud.
The Truman Gumshoes is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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