How long does it take to read One Corpse Too Many?
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: A Morbid Taste for Bones Next: Monk's Hood
About 4 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 222 pages, about 61,050 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The year is 1138. King Stephen and his cousin the Empress Maud are caught in a bitter struggle for the British crown. When Stephen finally captures the castle of Shrewsbury, one of Maud's few remaining hold-outs, his victory is a bloody one. Ninety-four prisoners, the surviving defenders of the Empress's castle, are taken. And ninety-four are hanged. Brother Cadfael of the nearby Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul is called upon to give a decent burial to the dead. But before they can reach their final resting place, Cadfael discovers an extra corpse. This is no soldier- the ninety-fifth body is that of a youth, killed by a knife to his pale young throat. An amateur detective with no small share of courage, Cadfael is determined to identify the young man- and his murderer. For help he has a lovely young fugitive with her won supply of bravery, and together they set out to solve this charming and suspenseful mystery. "You'll love Brother Cadfael, wily veteran of the Crusades....this was England before the age of tea and crumpets." Los Angeles Times Book Review --Taken directly off the back of the 1990 American version of the book
Subjects: Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), Fiction, Herbalists, History, Monks, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
