It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Death of a Fool by Ngaio Marsh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Folkways turn fatal in a very old-fashioned English village, in this witty mystery filled with “ingenious” detective work (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. The very old ways. This may be 1957, but South Mardian still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There’s squabbling, of course, and worse—like when one of the ritual’s main players is found beheaded, everything north of his neck having been neatly lopped off by a ritual sword. Inspector Alleyn does have to contain a...
Death of a Fool by Ngaio Marsh is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.
This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Death of a Fool aloud.
Death of a Fool is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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