How long does it take to read When Last I Died?
When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1941. 208 pages, about 57,200 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 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
*"Oh, mother! That wretched woman! After all, she's dead and buried. Why don't you leave well alone?" enquired her son. "So said the ghost of Joan of Arc to George Bernard Shaw," Mrs. Bradley replied, with a chuckle.* Mrs Bradley is called in when two boys escape from a model juvenile reformatory. It's not the first such incident - several years before, two inmates had also run away, never to be seen again. The reformatory cook-housekeeper is implicated, but an investigation turns up nothing in the way of solid evidence. Years later, the unhappy woman commits suicide. Then her diary falls into Mrs Bradley's hands, and the mistakes and inconsistencies it contains prompt the canny psychologist/detective to follow the trail of years-old crimes.
Subjects: Mystery, Women detectives, Fiction, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Private investigators
