How long does it take to read The Mummy Case?
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters takes about 6 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Amelia Peabody series
Previous: The Curse of the Pharaohs Next: Lion in the Valley
About 6 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1985. 328 pages, about 90,200 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn -- and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.
Subjects: Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Fiction, Women archaeologists, Mystery and detective stories, Mystery, Egypt, fiction
