How long does it take to read Devices and Desires?
Devices and Desires by P. D. James takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Adam Dalgliesh
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About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1989. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Police, Fiction, Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character), Serial murderers
