How long does it take to read Untimely Death?
An Inspector Mallett and Francis Pettigrew Mystery
Untimely Death by Cyril Hare takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 189 pages, about 51,975 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Inspector Mallett mystery - 6 Francis Pettigrew mystery - 5 Francis Pettigrew, on holiday on Exmoor, relives memories of finding a dead body as a child--and then he finds a dead body on the same spot, in very similar circumstances. When the body subsequently disappears and reappears, he tries simply to keep out of the whole business, but his old friend Inspector Mallet, now retired, gets him involved in solving the mystery.
Subjects: Francis Pettigrew (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Lawyers, fiction, England, fiction
