How long does it take to read In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner?
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George takes about 13 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 718 pages, about 197,450 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now, as Lynley struggles to find out if Nicola's killer was an enemy of her father's or one she earned herself, a disgraced Barbara Havers, determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her longtime partner, crisscrosses London seeking information on the second murder victim. Yet the more dark secrets Lynley and Havers uncover, the more they learn that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be. And once again they come up against the icy realization that human relationships are often murderous...and that the blood that binds can also kill.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Barbara Havers (Fictitious character), Police, Thomas Lynley (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Suspense
