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How long does it take to read Well-Schooled in Murder?

Elizabeth George

Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 30 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1990. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 11 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 30 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 19 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child--and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers's cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew's death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds--and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....From the Paperback edition.

Subjects: Fiction, Barbara Havers (Fictitious character), Police, Thomas Lynley (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Suspense

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