How long does it take to read Murder on the Ballarat Train?
Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood takes about 2 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 59 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1992. 163 pages, about 44,825 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Another runaway adventure with glamorous heroine Phryne Fisher!When Phryne Fisher arranges to go to Ballarat for a week, she eschews the excitement of her Hispano-Suiza for the sedate safety of the train. But as the passengers sleep, they are all overcome by chloroform poisoning.In the morning Phryne is left to piece together all the clues: a young girl suffering from amnesia, the body of an old woman missing her emerald rings and rumours of white slavery and black magic... the last thing Phryne was expecting of this train journey was that she will have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives!
Subjects: Phryne Fisher (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fiction, Australia, fiction, Fiction, historical, Private investigators, fiction
