How long does it take to read The Hanging Valley?
The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson takes about 6 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Inspector Alan Banks
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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