How long does it take to read The Midnight Mystery?
The Midnight Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner takes about 2 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 21 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2003. 128 pages, about 35,200 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Boxcar children are attending an Invention Convention at the home of an eccentric artist known for her one-of-a-kind clocks. The clocks sound loudly at every hour. But the clocks aren't the only noise the kids hear at midnight.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Orphans, Inventions, Clocks and watches, Mystery and detective stories
