How long does it take to read Death in a White Tie?
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh takes about 6 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1938. 350 pages, about 96,250 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 40 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels.The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.But someone else got there first...
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Roman policier, England, fiction
