How long does it take to read Shroud for a Lady?
originally published under the title : The wrong way down
Shroud for a Lady by Elizabeth Daly takes about 3 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 165 pages, about 45,375 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Miss Julia Paxton has a mystery that only Gamadge could solve. The framed etching of Lady Audley had always hung in the hallway of the Ashbury mansion. Miss Paxton remembered it from her girlhood, and she was now a hale and hearty seventy-five. But never in all those years had she seen one word written on the portrait. In fact, none had been there — until after the visit last Sunday of Iris Vance, professional medium. Then the inscription, dated 1793, appeared. But how? Gamadge could tell the writing was genuine, he could even explain its presence without invoking the supernatural... but he couldn't stop Lady Audley's secret from leading to a most horrible murder.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, murder mystery, Henry Gamadge (Fictitious character), Fiction, Bibliographers, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
