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How long does it take to read The Cradle Will Fall?

Mary Higgins Clark

The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark takes about 5 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 45 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1980. 314 pages, about 86,350 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 36 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 36 minutes

The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Genetic engineering, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Medical ethics, Human experimentation in medicine, Fiction, suspense

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