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How long does it take to read The Sherlock Holmes Companion?

Michael Hardwick, Mollie Hardwick

The Sherlock Holmes Companion by Michael Hardwick, Mollie Hardwick takes about 4 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 15 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1962. 232 pages, about 63,800 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 5 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 15 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 40 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

To the collector, to the Sherlockian historian, to anyone who believes in giving credit where credit is due, The Sherlock Holmes Companion is the book produced in 1962 by Michael and Mollie Hardwick, the first volume in the genre to which Daniel Smith is now contributing.

Subjects: Dictionaries, Characters, Dictionaries, indexes, Dictionaries indexes etc., Sherlock Holmes

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