How long does it take to read Saint Peter's Fair?
Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: Monk's Hood Next: The Leper of Saint Giles
About 4 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 268 pages, about 73,700 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 44 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. There is a pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139, and the fair promises to bring some much-needed gaiety to the town of Shrewsbury--until the body of a wealthy merchant is found murdered in the river Severn. A crime-solving monk steps in.
Subjects: Fiction, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), Herbalists, Monks, History, Catholics
