How long does it take to read Pearls Before Swine?
Pearls Before Swine by Margery Allingham takes about 4 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 14 of Albert Campion
Previous: Traitor's Purse Next: Coroner's Pidgin
About 4 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1940. 242 pages, about 66,550 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Also published as Coroner's Pidgin. Albert Campion is home on leave after three years of wartime intelligence work overseas. His only thought is to get to his house in the country and his wife, Lady Amanda. How can his manservant Lugg have been so inconsiderate as to deposit a dead body in his London flat? Reluctantly, Campion is drawn into the intrigues of Lord Carados' eccentric household - none of them quite as eccentric as his Lordship's formidable mother. He must deal with murder, treason and grand larceny before he can can go home, and even then his troubles are not over.
Subjects: Private investigators, Albert Campion (Fictitious character), Private investigators in fiction, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Investigation
