How long does it take to read An Unsuitable Job for a Woman?
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Cordelia Gray
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1972. 285 pages, about 78,375 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 60 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Cordelia Gray MysteryMeet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.
Subjects: Fiction, Women private investigators, Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Women detectives
