How long does it take to read The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Next: Tears of the Giraffe
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 240 pages, about 66,000 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 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 56 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Precious Ramotswe (Fictional character)
