How long does it take to read The Silk Stocking Murders?
The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1920. 256 pages, about 70,400 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 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gentleman sleuth and novelist Roger Sheringham would not have ordinarily been curious about the suicide of chorus girl Miss Unity Ransome. However when he receives a cry for help from a country parson attempting to trace his missing daughter, Sheringham finds himself involved. And when three other young women are found hanged dead, by silk stockings, Sheringham realizes that what he is investigating is actually murder.
Subjects: Fiction, Roger Sheringham (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Murder, Investigation
