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How long does it take to read The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes?

Arthur Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan Doyle

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan Doyle takes about 5 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1954. 317 pages, about 87,175 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 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 38 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more! The Adventure of the Seven Clocks The Adventure of the Gold Hunter The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle The Adventure of the Black Baronet The Adventure of the Sealed Room The Adventure of the Foulkes Rath The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby The Adventure of the Dark Angles The Adventure of the Two Women The Adventure of the Depthford Horror The Adventure of the Red Widow

Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, English Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, Detective and mystery stories, Parodies, imitations

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