How long does it take to read A Letter of Mary?
a Mary Russell novel
A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King, Jenny Sterlin takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Mary Russell
Previous: A Monstrous Regiment of Women Next: The Moor
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An archeologist on a dig in 1920s Palestine discovers a letter purporting to come from a woman who was an apostle of Christ. A sensational document. When on her return to England the archeologist is murdered, sleuth Mary Russell decides to find out why.
Subjects: Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Women detective, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction
