How long does it take to read Death and the Dancing Footman?
Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 11 of Roderick Alleyn
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About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1941. 320 pages, about 88,000 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With the notion of bringing together the most bitter of enemies for his own amusement, a bored, mischievous millionaire throws a house party. As a brutal snowstorm strands the unhappy guests, the party receives a most unwelcome visitor: death. Now the brilliant inspector Roderick Alleyn must step in to decipher who at the party is capable of cold-blooded murder. Inspector Alleyn receives a late invitation to a decidedly unsocial function, when a jaded millionaire is murdered at his own gala event. Reissue.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), History, Detective and mystery stories
