How long does it take to read Adventure of the Empty House?
Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 2 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours
An evening's read
First published 1994. 109 pages, about 29,975 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Subjects: air guns, anonymity, attempted murder, baritsu, coal tar, deformities
