How long does it take to read Murder Underground?
British Library Crime Classics
Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 288 pages, about 79,200 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 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
> When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about. the identity of the murderer, and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy 'Pongle'. Several of her fellow residents - even Tuppy the terrier have a part to play in the events that lead to a dramatic arrest. >This classic mystery novel is set in and around the Northern Line of the London Underground. It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Stephen Booth.
Subjects: Northern Line, London Underground Limited, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Golden Age mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
