How long does it take to read Shroud for a Nightingale?
Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Adam Dalgliesh
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About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1971. 336 pages, about 92,400 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 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 53 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
Subjects: Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Investigation, Murder, Mystery
