How long does it take to read The Beckoning Lady?
The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 18 of Albert Campion
Previous: The Tiger in the Smoke Next: Tether's End
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1955. 250 pages, about 68,750 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Private investigators, Albert Campion (Fictitious character), Fiction, England, fiction, country house murder, Competition