How long does it take to read Dead Water?
Dead Water by Ngaio Marsh takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Roderick Alleyn
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About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Faith healing can be fatal When intrepid octogenarian Emily Pride inherits an island, and the miraculous properties of its "Pixie Falls" healing spring, she is shocked by all the vulgarity. The admission fee, the Gifte Shoppe, the folksy Festival, the neon sign on the pub, all must go! But local opposition runs high, death threats pile up, and Miss Emily's old friend Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives just in time to discover a drowned body and a set of murder motives that seem to spring eternal.
Subjects: Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, England, fiction
