How long does it take to read Daddy's Girl?
Clifford Irving
Daddy's Girl by Clifford Irving takes about 10 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 27 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 570 pages, about 156,750 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
James Campbell, well-liked Texas lawyer, successful although reputedly unscrupulous, and Virginia, his paralegal wife of 40 years, are found brutally shot to death in the bedroom of their Houston home. With no witnesses and only allegations of family greed, incest, and sexual abuse, the murder remains unsolved for years. The most likely suspects, the victims' youngest daughter Cindy, and her ex-Marine boyfriend, David West, had an alibi the police could not crack. And then West fell in love with Kim Paris, a sexy ex-stripper turned private investigator. She coaxed a confession from him that led to a complex murder case exploding into national news. Clifford Irving wrote: "I started out in Houston as a writer on assignment . . . but I became an investigator, a friend to many of the dramatis personae, and a trial witness. As a result, to my discomfort, I helped to determine the outcome of events . . ." The story of Cindy, a tortured woman, and David, a man determined to do the right thing even if it required multiple murder, is as spectacular and thrilling a true-crime courtroom drama as you will ever read.
Subjects: Trials, litigation, Trials (Murder), Murder, texas
