How long does it take to read Haunted Lady?
Haunted Lady by Mary Roberts Rinehart takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1942. 275 pages, about 75,625 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Fairbanks curse... When Hilda Adams came to the Fairbanks' mansion as nurse/companion to old Eliza Fairbanks, she was warned that Eliza was prey to sick fancies...insane fears. But soon Hilda discovered that the evil obsessing the old lady was no spectre of madness...that no one in this house of hate and strange deception could be trusted, not even the disturbingly attentive and attractive Fairbanks' heir...that the terrible secret that touched every life with fear was reaching out to claim Hilda as its helpless victim.
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories, mystery and suspense, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Romance - Gothic
