How long does it take to read Lion in the Valley?
Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Amelia Peabody series
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About 6 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. Amelia is alert to the likely presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal -- notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prize of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice ... Amelia Peabody!
Subjects: Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Fiction, Women archaelogists, Women archaeologists, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, historical
