How long does it take to read Six Against the Yard?
Anthony Berkeley, Margery Allingham, Certain members of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Agatha Christie
Six Against the Yard by Anthony Berkeley, Margery Allingham, Certain members of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Agatha Christie takes about 5 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 303 pages, about 83,325 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - six 'perfect murder' stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved. Is the 'perfect murder' possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable - even to the most astute investigator? In this unique collection, legendary crime writers Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the CID then attempts to unravel. This clever literary battle of wits from the archives of the Detection Club joins The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman in showing some of the experts from the Golden Age of detective fiction at their most ingenious.
Subjects: Ex-police officers, Fiction, Short stories, Anthology, Detective and mystery stories, Crime, fiction
