How long does it take to read The Adventure of the Resident Patient?
The Adventure of the Resident Patient by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 4 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes
Previous: The Adventure of the Reigate Squire Next: The Adventure of the Yellow Face
About 4 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 232 pages, about 63,800 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 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Adventure of the Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
Subjects: catalepsy, amyl nitrate, suicide by hanging, broughams
