How long does it take to read Scales of Justice?
Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Roderick Alleyn
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About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1955. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A country Eden blooms with murderSwevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...
Subjects: Police, Fiction, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Murder, Investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
