How long does it take to read Whose Body??
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers takes about 3 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
Next: Clouds of Witness
About 3 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1923. 212 pages, about 58,300 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 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 319 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate
Subjects: Mystery, Detectives, English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Fiction, Police
