How long does it take to read Death Takes a Bow?
Frances and Richard Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Death Takes a Bow by Frances and Richard Lockridge, Richard Lockridge takes about 4 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1943. 258 pages, about 70,950 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Death Takes a Bow when Mr. North, a book publisher, is asked to introduce one of his authors, Victor Sproul, at a lecture in a fashionable New York discussion club. The introduction completed, Mr. North turns to find the speaker unable to rise from his chair on the platform. Minutes later, Sproul is dead - apparently poisoned. Mrs. North, of course, is in the audience, and so is the wife of Lieutenant Weigand of the New York Homicide Squad. Arriving on the scene, Weigand finds a particularly clueless case, with little or nothing to go on except the mysterious activities of an uncatchable little man with a dark complexion who steals Sproul's lecture notes — and then returns them to the police!
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Pam North (Fictitious character), Jerry North (Fictitious character), Married people, Women detectives
