How long does it take to read The Eye of Osiris?
A Detective Story
The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin Freeman takes about 6 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours
A weekend read
First published 1911. 327 pages, about 89,925 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 136 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dr. John Thorndyke is a professor of medicine, but he is also a pathological sleuth with a taste for mysteries that would stop other detectives cold. The disappearance of a successful archaeologist. poses a disturbing riddle to Thorndyke: "When is a murder not a murder?' The answer hinges on the question of whether or not it is possible to fabricate a corpse out of whole cloth. And why would anyone want to, except to disguise a murder?
Subjects: London (england), fiction, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Missing persons, Private investigators, Mummies
