How long does it take to read The Adventure of the Second Stain?
The Adventure of the Second Stain by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes
Previous: The Adventure of the Priory School Next: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
About 17 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1911. 15 pages, about 4,125 words.
1 day at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Adventure of the Second Stain", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and the only unrecorded case mentioned passively by Watson to be written. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Second Stain" eighth in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.
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