How long does it take to read The Peacock Feather Murders?
The Peacock Feather Murders by John Dickson Carr takes about 4 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Sir Henry Merrivale
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About 4 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1937. 259 pages, about 71,225 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The murderer sent a formal invitation to Scotland Yard telling them the time and place of the murder. Incredulous, and astounded at the audacity of such a note, the Yard recalled a similar, and still unsolved, case of two years previous. Sir Henry Merrivale and Chief Inspector Masters accepted the invitation and had the house surrounded. Upstairs in an otherwise empty house was a furnished room. A man entered the house. Promptly at the time set by the murderer a shot rang out. The police rushed in and discovered that same man on the floor with a bullet through the back of the head and another in his spine... but no one else had entered the house! It was an impossible situation, but it DID happen.
Subjects: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, locked-room mysteries
