The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"The Efficiency Expert" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a novella written in 1919 and published in 1921. Jimmy Torrance, a celebrated college athlete, rejects his father's business offer to prove himself independently in Chicago. Struggling through numerous failed jobs, he befriends a pickpocket and eventually becomes an efficiency expert at a factory. There he uncovers embezzlement, meets a young woman named Elizabeth, and becomes entangled in a web of crime that leads
to murder and false accusations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Efficiency Expert |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Efficiency_Expert_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by Fred M. Adams (fsadams@magma.cs) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Gangsters -- Fiction |
| Subject | College graduates -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 3475 |
| Release Date | Oct 1, 2002 |
| Most Recently Updated | May 6, 2012 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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