Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
110220
Points per Word
0.000163
Description
Bill is the last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town. He lives alone in the family mansion and writes for the local paper. Then the murder of old man Lawton gives him national scoops and a disturbing involvement with the the family.