How long does it take to read Silver Blaze?
Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 1 hour 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes
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About 1 hour 13 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1966. 66 pages, about 18,150 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a horse called Silver Blaze, the favourite to win the Wessex Cup, disappears in mysterious circumstances and its trainer is murdered, the story is front page news. But is Fitzroy Simpson the murderer? Holmes and Watson are called into find out.
Subjects: Children's stories, English children's stories, English Detective and mystery stories, horse racing, Mystery and detective stories, opium
