How long does it take to read Death on the Cherwell?
Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 2014. 273 pages, about 75,075 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils in the world: unladylike behavior among her students and bad publicity for the college. This means it's a very, very bad day when a secret society of her students meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon--and finds the drowned body of the college bursar. Death on the Cherwell follows the investigation, which initially focuses on the girls themselves and ultimately leads them to do some detecting of their own. Soon they uncover a tangle of secrets--and clues that point to a fellow student. Originally published in 1935.
Subjects: College students, Murder, Investigation, Fiction, Golden Age mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
