How long does it take to read An Excellent Mystery?
An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 11 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Pilgrim of Hate Next: The Raven in the Foregate
About 4 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 234 pages, about 64,350 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Shrewsbury hosts two refugee brothers with a history that could bedevil the Benedictines, but gives Cadfael something to do.
Subjects: Fiction, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), Great Britain in fiction, History
