How long does it take to read The Valley of Fear?
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 3 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Sherlock Holmes
Previous: The Adventure of the Dying Detective Next: His Last Bow
About 3 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1914. 207 pages, about 56,925 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 758 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Romans, Roman policier anglais
