How long does it take to read The Nine Tailors?
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers takes about 6 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 9 of Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
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About 6 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1934. 338 pages, about 92,950 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 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 70 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling twenty years later.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Mystery and detective stories, mystery, detective fiction, England, fiction
