How long does it take to read Above Suspicion?
Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes takes about 6 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1941. 333 pages, about 91,575 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 38 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures. Above Suspicion was MacInnes’ breakthrough book, a bestseller published in 1941 and released as a movie in 1943, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. Interesting necause based on the real experience of the author and her husband, two scholars who made many trips in Germany. Gilbert Highet served as a British intelligence agent in MI6 in addition to working as a classical scholar.
Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement, Fiction, College teachers, History, Spy stories, Fiction, espionage
