How long does it take to read The Case of the Borrowed Brunette?
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 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 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Perry Mason and Della Street counted eight in succession, standing on corners a block apart, before pulling up to the curb to investigate. That's how they met Cora Felton, the eighth brunette, and Eva Martell, her roommate, and Adelle Winters, the chaperone who carried a .32 caliber revolver as a persuader. It wasn't just curiosity for long because Mr. Hines, who paid Eva $50 a day to wear another woman's clothes, was found dead with a bullet in his brain, and Perry Mason himself was suspected by the police of hiding the killer. To get out of that jam he had to find a lot of right answers, quick, from a lot of wrong people.
Subjects: Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Trials (Murder), Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, legal
