How long does it take to read Tears of the Giraffe?
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith takes about 4 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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About 4 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 234 pages, about 64,350 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.
Subjects: Botswana, fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Women detectives, Fiction, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
