How long does it take to read Vanity Dies Hard?
Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell takes about 3 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 183 pages, about 50,325 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 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Alice Whittaker was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life a lonely failure, she had got by with the one thing she did have - money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, just as suddenly her beautiful friend, Nesta, vanished from it - leaving a trail of confusing clues.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Detective and mystery stories, English fiction
