How long does it take to read Trial for Murder?
Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens takes about 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 33 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2008. 30 pages, about 8,250 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 218 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of Dickens's standalone ghost stories, of which he was so fond. Here the unnamed narrator is also selected as the foreman of the jury where the accused is being tried for murder. There is, among the jury, an unseen thirteenth juror, whose presence is certainly felt by the accused, by witnesses, by the prosecutor and by the judge himself. When the verdict is pronounced, the guilty man (for so he has been judged) declares that the the trial was an unfair one, that the foreman of the jury was dead against him...
Subjects: Short story, ghost story
