How long does it take to read The Case of the Buried Clock?
The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 4 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1943. 245 pages, about 67,375 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After catching his son-in-law embezzling, wealthy banker Vincent Blane is shocked when the younger man is murdered and Blane's daughter is accused, prompting him to call in Perry Mason for her defense. A buried clock appears, disappears, and re-appears. It is set to sidereal time -- the time used by the stars as opposed to the Earth. The book explains this. But who did it? And why? And when? And where? So much to discover -- so little time when two defendants are being tried and neither will talk to Perry. Not even the one who is his client.
Subjects: Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Trials (Murder), American Detective and mystery stories
