How long does it take to read The Body in the Library?
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Miss Marple
Previous: The Murder at the Vicarage Next: The Moving Finger
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1942. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 127 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is her connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys turn to Miss Marple to solve the mystery.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Agatha Christie
