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How long does it take to read The Case of the Daring Divorcee?

Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Daring Divorcee by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 28 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1964. 189 pages, about 51,975 words. Written for children.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 47 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 28 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 10 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 were both out to lunch. Gertie, the receptionist and telephone operator, was indulging in her favorite noontime occupation - munching chocolates and reading a love story - when the door burst open and a woman rushed in. Gertie got her name, all right, dimly registered the fact that she was not only very attractive buy very upset at having to wait for Mason, and Gertie even looked up when the woman left before he returned. But vicarious romance was the rule of that day - much to the annoyance of Lt. Tragg when he later tried to piece together what had happened. And although his plan for surprising Gertie into a identification of the lady was ingenious, Perry's counter-measure was even more so... What started out as an amicable divorce ends in murder and Perry Mason is accused of concealing evidence, leaving Hamilton Burger furious and threatening to have Mason's license to practice revoked.

Subjects: Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Detective and mystery stories

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