How long does it take to read The Singing Sands?
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey takes about 4 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 235 pages, about 64,625 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 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 64 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The young man with the tumbled black hair and the reckless eyebrows was dead in compartment B Seven on the night train from London. The only message he had left behind was a verse—a strange unfinished poem that haunted Inspector Grant—that spoke of talking beasts and singing sands guarding the way to Paradise. Even on sick leave in Scotland, Grant couldn't let the puzzle alone or relax and enjoy the heather until he had uncovered all the sinister details in one of the cleverest murders in criminal history!
Subjects: Alan Grant (Fictitious character), Fiction, Great Britain, Police, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
