How long does it take to read The Case of the Smoking Chimney?
The Case of the Smoking Chimney by Erle Stanley Gardner takes about 4 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1943. 237 pages, about 65,175 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 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A crafty businessman arrives incognito in a small town, where he takes up residence at a cabin. Using another name he starts buying up property. When he is found dead in his mountain cabin there is no shortage of suspects. Amateur detective Gramps Wiggins has to piece together the clues.
Subjects: Gramps Wiggins (fictitious character), Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
