How long does it take to read The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club?
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
Previous: Unnatural Death Next: Lord Peter Views the Body
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1928. 254 pages, about 69,850 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 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 67 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On Armistice day, an elderly gentleman is found dead in his chair at his club. The death seems natural enough, but a tricky question of inheritance leads Lord Peter to try to pin the time down more exactly. And the more questions he asks, the more unpleasant things start to seem.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Private investigators, fiction
