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How long does it take to read The Case of the Howling Dog?

Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 5 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Perry Mason

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About 5 hours 25 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1934. 295 pages, about 81,125 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 1 minute
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 25 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Arthur Cartright's official complaint about a neighbor's noisy dog leads Perry Mason and his associate into a case involving a poisoned police dog, a missing wife, and murder

Subjects: Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), mystery, Trials (Murder), Popular Print Disabled Books, California, fiction

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