How long does it take to read Shake Hands Forever?
Ruth Rendell, John Escott, Nigel Anthony
Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell, John Escott, Nigel Anthony takes about 3 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 9 of Inspector Wexford
Previous: Some Lie and Some Die
About 3 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 216 pages, about 59,400 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Classic Crime Fiction from "The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time."Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times before, but she had never before seen a death by violence. Heavily, she plodded across the room and descended the stairs to where her son waited. 'There's been an accident,' she said. 'Your wife's dead.'Chief Inspector Wexford could discover no motive, no reason, no suspect - al he had were his own intuitive suspicions. Probably he was reading meaning where there was none; probably Angela Hathall really had picked up a stranger, and that stranger had killed her. But why such doubt? Was Wexford becoming cynical and untrusting - or was this simply one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction
