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The Purloined Letter is 38 pages, about 42 minutes at 250 words a minute.

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The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville Davisson Post, E. W. Hornung, Edith Wharton, Jack London, O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr, G. K. Chesterton, Frederick Irving Anderson, Vincent Starrett, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Burke, Georges Simenon, Logan Clendening, James Gould Cozzens, Lord Dunsany, John Collier, Ben Ray Redman, Robert Bloch, Barry Perowne, James Thurber, C. P. Donnel, Harry Kemelman, Ogden Nash, Stanley Ellin, A. A. Milne, Ellery Queen, Ed Mcbain, Mickey Spillane, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Isaac Asimov, John Gardner, Stephen King, Clark Howard, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, Sara Paretsky, Harlan Ellison, Charles McCarry, Elmore Leonard 10.4 h

At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft, Enrique Breccia 3.5 h

Two-Minute Mysteries Collection Donald J. Sobol 3.0 h

Scary Stories Barry Moser, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce 3.4 h

13 for Luck Agatha Christie 4.2 h

The High Window Raymond Chandler 4.2 h

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