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How long does it take to read The Religious Body?

Catherine Aird

The Religious Body by Catherine Aird takes about 3 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 16 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1961. 178 pages, about 48,950 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 26 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 16 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 2 minutes

The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Callehsire C.I.D. makes his first appearance here as he looks into the murder of a nun at the Convent of St. Anselm. First published in 1966, The Religious Body was Aird's first book and immediately established herself as one of the leading exponents of the post-WWII English traditional mystery.

Subjects: C. D. Sloan (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Great britain, fiction

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