How long does it take to read The Last Gamble?
The Last Gamble by Mary Nichols takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Miss Helen Sanghurst had had too many shocks, discovering after her father's suicide that he had gambled away her inheritance. It was some relief to find she had a guardian, even if it meant traveling from London to Scotland. Needing some peace, she was bent on traveling alone, but coach travel was risky and Helen was secretly thankful for the protection offered by Captain Duncan Blair, also traveling North. That didn't mean, however, that she was going to reveal her identity to a stranger, no matter how attractive ...
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Great Britain, fiction
