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How long does it take to read The Hanging Valley?

Peter Robinson

The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson takes about 6 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 6 hours 48 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1990. 371 pages, about 102,025 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 20 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 48 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 15 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A hiker's discomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hover over a small rural village and its tight-lipped residents.

Subjects: England, fiction, Alan Banks (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police

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