How long does it take to read Ripley Under Ground?
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Tom Ripley series
Previous: The Talented Mr. Ripley Next: Ripley's Game
About 5 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 275 pages, about 75,625 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 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress. All seems serene in Ripley's world until a phone call from London shatters his peace. An art forgery scheme he set up a few years ago is threatening to unravel: a nosy American is asking questions and Ripley must go to London to put a stop to it. In this second Ripley novel, Patricia Highsmith offers a mesmerizing and disturbing tale in which Ripley will stop at nothing to preserve his tangle of lies.
Subjects: Criminals, Fiction, Psychopaths, Serial murderers, Tom Ripley (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
