How Long to Read Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s

How Long Does it Take to Read Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 35 minutes to read Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s by Sarah Weinman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery. This volume, the first of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. From the 1940s here are Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery Laura, Helen Eustis’s intricate academic thriller The Horizontal Man, Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place, the terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wife in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened. From the Hardcover edition.

How long is Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s?

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s by Sarah Weinman is 848 pages long, and a total of 218,784 words.

This makes it 286% the length of the average book. It also has 267% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 19 hours and 55 minutes to read Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s aloud.

What Reading Level is Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s?

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s 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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