How long does it take to read Huntingtower?
Huntingtower by John Buchan takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Dickson McCunn trilogy
Next: Castle Gay
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1910. 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 293 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dickson MCunn, a recently retired prosperous Scots grocer decides on a walking tour in SW Scotland as a suitable beginning to his retirement activities. To his surprise, he stumbles into a sinister plot involving kidnapping, crown jewels, and terrorism.To his surprise (and deep satisfaction) our 56 year old hero acquits himself very well, in the process proving that the Geritol crowd can and do have remarkable and heroic adventures!
Subjects: Fiction, Dickson McCunn (Fictitious character), Kidnapping, Kidnapping in fiction, Princesses, Scotland in fiction
