How long does it take to read From Doon with Death?
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Inspector Wexford
Next: Murder Being Once Done
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century. There is nothing extraordinary about Margaret Parsons, a timid housewife in the quiet town of Kingsmarkham, a woman devoted to her garden, her kitchen, her husband. Except that Margaret Parsons is dead, brutally strangled, her body abandoned in the nearby woods.
Subjects: Mystery, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Fiction, Thriller, English Detective and mystery stories
