How long does it take to read The Case of the Late Pig?
The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 10 of Albert Campion
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About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1937. 144 pages, about 39,600 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Pig" Peters made Albert Campion's life a misery at prep school, and now that he's dead, Campion is hard-pressed to squeeze out a tear. Still, he does attend the funeral. Not because he regrets the passing of the Pig, but because he got an intriguingly anonymous invitation and Campion never can resist a mystery. The mystery deepens significantly six months later, when a friend in the countryside urgently requests Campion's help. On arrival in Sussex, Campion is presented with a dead body that, in life, most definitely belonged to the late-and-not-much-lamented Pig. So who, exactly, was buried six months earlier? As mourners for the previous funeral turn up-- as well as some of Pig's newer though not-particularly-grieving acquaintances-- Campion is even more confused, but he eventually gropes his way to a solution.
Subjects: Private investigators, Albert Campion (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical
