How long does it take to read The Crisscross Shadow?
The Crisscross Shadow by Carolyn Keene takes about 3 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Hardy Boys
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About 3 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 169 pages, about 46,475 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a man selling leather goods door-to-door steals the key to their detective father's file cabinet, Frank and Joe Hardy set out to track him down. An odd mark on a key case which the man sold to their mother leads the teen-age sleuths to an Indian village, whose chief begs them to help him. Two strangers have claimed title to the Indians' land, the deed to which had been secretly buried by the Chief's father, along with other valuable tribal possessions, shortly before he died. The only clue to the location is that a crisscross shadow marks the site when the October full moon is low in the sky. How Frank and Joe find the missing deed and the other Ramapan treasures, how they prevent the phony leather-goods salesman from carrying out a ruthless scheme, and how they help their father solve the top-secret case he is working on for the U.S. government makes exciting reading for all fans of the Hardy boys. - Flyleaf.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories, Children's fiction
