How long does it take to read The Hippopotamus Pool?
The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Amelia Peabody series
Previous: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog Next: Seeing a Large Cat
About 7 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he tells his secret, the husband-and-wife team sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped-and hampered-by their teenage son, Ramses, and beautiful ward, Nefret. But before the sands of time shift very far, all will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. And the Hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type-a nefarious, overweight art dealer who may become her next archenemy!
Subjects: Fiction, Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Women archaeologists, Egyptologists, Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories
