How long does it take to read The Mystery of the Strange Messages?
The Mystery of the Strange Messages by Enid Blyton takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Five Find-Outers
Previous: The Mystery of the Missing Man Next: The Mystery of Banshee Towers
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 192 pages, about 52,800 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Detective and mystery stories, Adventure, Juvenile fiction, Five Find-Outers (Fictitious characters)
