Books like Puppet on a Chain
Alistair MacLean
Puppet on a Chain is 255 pages, about 4 hours 41 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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Dreamland 7.1 h 
Ordeal by Innocence 4.6 h 
A Pocket Full of Rye 3.8 h 
The Lost World 4.4 h 
Endless Night 4.4 h 
Whose Body? 3.9 h 
Corpse in the Waxworks 3.5 h 
Julius Caesar 2.5 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.