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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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
Last Update May 6, 2012
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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