A strange disappearance vs Girl with a Pearl Earring: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Women domestics, Women household employees, Fiction
A strange disappearance
Mr. Gryce leads his young police detective protégé to face his first nemesis. A young girl who is more than she appears has gone missing from a local household. Even for the rising young police detective, who was…
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
This book "centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoil as Vermeer and…
The verdict
- Readers rate Girl with a Pearl Earring highest: Girl with a Pearl Earring 3.9 · A strange disappearance 3.5.
- A strange disappearance is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 4 for Girl with a Pearl Earring.
- Girl with a Pearl Earring has the widest readership — 794974 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A strange disappearance | Girl with a Pearl Earring | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.5 (536) | 3.9 (794974) |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | 3.7 (240) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 3.5 (11) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (5) | 4.5 (649) |
Reception
| A strange disappearance | Girl with a Pearl Earring | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 536 | 794974 |
| Editions | 306 | 47 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 497 | 448483 |
| Reading it now | — | 4863 |
| Written reviews | 79 | 14753 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 9906 |
| Pages | 142 | 252 |