How long does it take to read The Dead Shall Be Raised & Murder of a Quack?
The Dead Shall Be Raised & Murder of a Quack by George Bellairs takes about 6 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2016. 364 pages, about 100,100 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
> Two classic cases featuring Detective Inspector Littlejohn. >The Dead Shall Be Raised: In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearth a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twenty-three years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the prime suspect was never found - but the second body is now identified as his. Soon it becomes clear that the true murderer is still at large... >Murder of a Quack: Nathaniel Wall, the local quack doctor, is found hanging in his consulting room in the Norfolk village of Stalden - but this was not a suicide. Against the backdrop of a close-knit country village, an intriguing story of ambition, blackmail, fraud, false alibis and botanical trickery unravels.
Subjects: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Golden Age mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction
