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John D. MacDonald
A Purple Place for Dying is 223 pages, about 4 hours 5 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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Rules of Prey 6.8 h 
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Pulp 3.5 h 
The Lady in the Lake 4.4 h 
Shadow Prey 6.6 h 
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