ShelfLook
Tools About
Cover of The Mystery of the Nervous Lion

How long does it take to read The Mystery of the Nervous Lion?

Kin Platt

The Mystery of the Nervous Lion by Kin Platt takes about 2 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 45 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1971. 150 pages, about 41,250 words. Written for children.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 35 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 43 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Hired to discover why a wild-animal farm's tame lion has become unpredictably nervous, three young detectives begin an investigation that uncovers a smuggling operation.

Subjects: Mystery and detective stories, Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction

More by Kin Platt

Popular books of similar length