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How long does it take to read The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes

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About 51 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1904. 46 pages, about 12,650 words.

2 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 1 hour 24 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 51 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 32 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and was published in 1904.

Subjects: blackmail, burglary, detective fiction, plumbers, Fiction, general

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