How long does it take to read Cover Her Face?
Cover Her Face by P. D. James takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Adam Dalgliesh
Next: A Mind to Murder
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 254 pages, about 69,850 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 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 59 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is.
Subjects: Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Country life, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Police
