How long does it take to read A Taste for Death?
A Taste for Death by P. D. James takes about 9 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of Adam Dalgliesh
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About 9 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1986. 513 pages, about 141,075 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .
Subjects: Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Fiction, Cabinet officers, Crimes against, Tramps, Police
