How long does it take to read Colour Scheme?
Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh takes about 5 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Roderick Alleyn
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About 5 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1943. 303 pages, about 83,325 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted -- if he wasn't a spy himself!
Subjects: Mystery, Police, Fiction, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), England, fiction, New zealand, fiction
