How long does it take to read The Cobra King of Kathmandu?
The Cobra King of Kathmandu by Philip Kerr takes about 6 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Children of the Lamp
Previous: The Blue Djinn of Babylon Next: The Day of the Djinn Warriors
About 6 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 373 pages, about 102,575 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the third book of the bestselling Children of the Lamp series, djinn twins, John and Philippa Gaunt, are on the trail of another magical mystery. As they travel from New York to London to Nepal and India on a whirlwind adventure, the twins try to help their friend and fellow djinn, Buck, find out who murdered his friend using the venomous snakebite of the king cobra. All too soon, John and Philippa find themselves caught up in the lethal world of the Cult of the Nine Cobras, only to discover that they themselves are a target of the creepy cobra cult.
Subjects: Genies, Fiction, Magic, Twins, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction
