How long does it take to read Gallows Thief?
Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell takes about 6 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 349 pages, about 95,975 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the cobbled streets outside Newgate Prison, the common and desperate of London gather regularly to enjoy the spectacle of human necks broken at the end of a hangman's rope. For Rider Sandman, newly returned from the Napoleonic Wars, it is not grim entertainment that draws him here, but a mission to prove the guilt or innocence of a condemned prisoner -- a duty that leads Sandman from the hellish bowels of Newgate to the scented drawing rooms of the ruthless and powerful, and into the darkest shadows of the filthy, bustling city, in search of the truth.
Subjects: Fiction, Death row inmates in fiction, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Death row inmates, History
