How long does it take to read Mystery in the Channel?
Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts takes about 5 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1931. 277 pages, about 76,175 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 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The cross-channel steamer Chichester suddenly stopped half way to France. Right in her course lay a yacht, motionless and apparently crewless. A boat was lowered and drew along side the derelict, while a party from the Chichester climbed aboard. On the deck was a trail of blood and at its end the body of a man. Down below, in a wildly disordered cabin, lay another man with a bullet hole in his forehead; and not a living soul was aboard. Mackintosh, the Chichester's third officer, and two men navigated the Nymph back to Newhaven, where Chief Constable Turnbull took charge. But there was more in this baffling mystery than he cared to tackle. Fortunately, like every one who has met him, Turnbull remembered Inspector French. He took the mystery to him. Needless to say, French solved it; and in what brilliant manner every experienced reader of detective fiction must already anticipate. Mystery in the Channel more than justifies our confidence in the Inspector, and in his creator, Freeman Wills Crofts.
Subjects: Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Golden Age mystery, Joseph French (Fictitious character)
