How long does it take to read One Fearful Yellow Eye?
One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald takes about 4 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Travis McGee
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About 4 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 226 pages, about 62,150 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Travis McGee #8 How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he likes a few members of the family far too much to let that happen....
Subjects: Mystery Fiction, Extortion in Fiction, Fiction, Private investigators, Travis McGee (Fictitious character), Florida, fiction
