How long does it take to read The Adventure of the Yellow Face?
The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 1 hour 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes
Previous: The Adventure of the Resident Patient Next: The Final Problem
About 1 hour 4 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2013. 58 pages, about 15,950 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Subjects: blackmail, mixed race children, tobacco pipes, yellow fever
