How long does it take to read Cocaine Blues?
a Phryne Fisher mystery.
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood takes about 4 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 261 pages, about 71,775 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1920s London, the Honourable Phryne Fisher has become bored with the party season. She set her sights on detective work in Melbourne, Australia. Once she books into the Windsor Hotel she's embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism.
Subjects: Phryne Fisher (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mystery and detective