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How long does it take to read Died in the Wool?

Ngaio Marsh

Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 13 of Roderick Alleyn

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About 4 hours 42 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1945. 256 pages, about 70,400 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 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 42 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 56 minutes

The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead

Subjects: Fiction, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Police, British, London (england), fiction, England, fiction

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