It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Lycett
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew Lycett, author of the critically acclaimed biography Dylan Thomas, offers the first definitive biography of the baffling Conan Doyle, finally making sense of a long-standing mystery: how the scientifically minded creator of the world's most rational detective himself succumbed to an avid belief in...
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Lycett is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.
This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes aloud.
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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