How long does it take to read The Twisted Claw?
The Twisted Claw by Carolyn Keene takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Hardy Boys
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About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1939. 191 pages, about 52,525 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 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A series of museum thefts launch the Hardy boys on this baffling mystery. Rare collections of ancient pirate treasure are being stolen. Who is doing it? And how is the loot being smuggled out of the United States? Frank and Joe's celebrated detective father is working on the case and asks the boys to stake out the Black Parrot, a suspicious freighter docked in Bayport Harbor. Disguised as crewmen the teen-age sleuths board the ship, determined to investigate its cargo hold. Clues that the boys unearth take them on a whirlwind chase after a self-styled pirate king -- a chase that leads to their imprisonment in the fantastic Caribbean island stronghold of the Empire of the Twisted Claw. How Frank and Joe cleverly outmaneuver the pirate king and his cohorts makes a gripping tale of suspense and high adventure. - Flyleaf.
Subjects: Mystery, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery and detective stories, Children's fiction
