How long does it take to read Owls Don't Blink?
Owls Don't Blink by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 5 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1942. 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 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cool & Lam Mystery #6 (1942) New York lawyer Emory Hale hires Los Angeles duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to find person-of-interest Roberta Fenn in New Orleans. For a client Hale refuses to name. Because there's nothing shady about that set-up, right?
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories
