How long does it take to read The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers?
Amy Gilman Srebnick
The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers by Amy Gilman Srebnick takes about 4 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 229 pages, about 62,975 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a young woman known popularly as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," disappeared from her boarding house on Nassau Street in downtown New York. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and water-logged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Long a celebrated unsolved mystery, this case was a major cause celebre in New York City. In The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, the historian Amy Gilman Srebnick traces the story of Mary Rogers, using her death as a window into the urban culture and consciousness of mid-nineteenth-century New York.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Murder, Sex role, Sex crimes, City and town life, History
