How long does it take to read The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle?
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 1 hour 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes
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About 1 hour 15 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1948. 68 pages, about 18,700 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (BLUE) is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine in January 1892. This is the 9th Sherlock Holmes story. Collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Subjects: carbuncles, Christmas dinners, commissionaires, Fiction, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction
