How long does it take to read The Skull Beneath the Skin?
The Skull Beneath the Skin by P. D. James takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 51 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death. From the Inside Flap Fading star Clarissa Lisle plans a spectacular comeback, to be staged in a gothic castle. But poison-pen letters bearing death threats couched in Shakespearian quotations prompt Clarissa's husband to call in the young private detective Cordelia Gray to investigate.
Subjects: Fiction, Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, England, fiction
