How long does it take to read Sacred Clowns?
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman takes about 6 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Joe Leaphorn
Previous: Talking God Next: Hunting Badger
About 6 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 354 pages, about 97,350 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown's ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo. AN ANCIENT TRUST IS BROKEN During a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before.In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown's message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.
Subjects: Fiction, Navajo Indians, Police, Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character), Jim Chee (Fictitious character), Indian reservation police
