How long does it take to read Smokescreen?
Smokescreen by Dick Francis takes about 4 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1972. 271 pages, about 74,525 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Famous actor Lincoln Edwards takes a short trip to South Africa to check on a dying friend's race horses which haven't been running as well as they ought. He survives two murder attempts, but might not survive the third. Manacled to the steering wheel of a car abandoned in a famous game park, he knows who trapped him there, and why. But not how he is going to survive.
Subjects: Fiction, Horse racing in fiction, Horse racing, South Africa in fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
