How long does it take to read The Case of the Long-legged Models?
The Case of the Long-legged Models by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 3 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 194 pages, about 53,350 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stephanie Faulkner enters Perry Mason's office having inherited forty percent of a Las Vegas Casino from her murdered father, seeking help from those who are trying to buy up all the stock. She wants to combine stock owner ship with Homer Garvin, Sr who owns another 15%. Garvin has discovered that the man who wants to get the stock is the one who killed Stephanie's father. The story progresses to the man's murder and Stephanie's arrest, with Garvin trying to compromise the evidence to protect Stephanie and getting Mason caught in the middle as he tries to sort the facts and put his case together. But he does and the surprise comes at the end.
Subjects: Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Trials (Murder), Detective and mystery stories
