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How long does it take to read The Mystery of the Stolen Sword?

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery of the Stolen Sword by Gertrude Chandler Warner takes about 2 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 13 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1998. 121 pages, about 33,275 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 42 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 13 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the families' valuable antiques are being stolen.

Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Orphans, Orchards, Fiction, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Orphans in fiction

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