How long does it take to read Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels?
Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers takes about 13 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1982. 736 pages, about 202,400 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contains the following complete, unabridged Lord Peter Wimsey murder mysteries: 1. Whose Body 2. Clouds of Witness 3. Murder Must Advertise 4. Gaudy Night Whose Body, while not the first of the Lord Peter Wimsey murder mysteries, is still among the earliest, and is an excellent starting place for newcomers to the series. Clouds of Witness features Lord Peter pursuing his detective avocation in the middle of his own ancestral family home, amid all of the tangled loyalties inherent in a case where one of his own siblings is being tried for murder -- and another is among the chief suspects! Murder Must Advertise, set in the middle of the period in which Lord Peter is courting the love of his life, nonetheless hardly mentions her, as Lord Peter goes undercover and incognito, working a job in an advertising agency where a suspicious death has taken place. At that time, there was as yet no clue that before the case wassolved, it would lead to drug dealing rings, adultery, fascinating insights on an increasingly marketing-driven economy... ...and Lord Peter Wimsey in one of his most fascinating guises yet: the mysterious sinister harlequin of a dope addict‘s dreams. Gaudy Night, the denouement of Lord Peter‘s romance with Harriet Vane, is noteworthy for the relative absence of the titled sleuth, as the majority of the investigation is pursued by his beloved detective novelist, in the context of her alma mater, a fictitious women‘s college at Oxford University. Set against the rising tensions of of pre-World-War-II Europe, which necessitate Lord Peter‘s absence at the behest of the Foreign Office, much of the novel explores the entirely different internal and social tensions resulting from women‘s changing role in society, and the rising class of educated professional women, seeking fulfilment beyond the traditional boundaries of hearth, home, and motherhood. The psychological exploration this entails is mirrored in the final resolution of Harriet Vane‘s own feelings about…
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, “Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character), Private investigators
