How long does it take to read 101 Mystery Stories?
Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Isaac Asimov, Anton Chekhov, Betty Ren Wright
101 Mystery Stories by Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Isaac Asimov, Anton Chekhov, Betty Ren Wright takes about 11 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1986. 610 pages, about 167,750 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contents: The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- There hangs death! / John D. Macdonald -- Town wanted / Fredric Brown -- The sweetest man in the world / Donald E. Westlake -- Every fifth man / Edward D. Hoch -- Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The leakage / Frank Sisk -- The gesture / Gil Brewer -- The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon -- Punishment to fit the crime / Robert L. Fish -- The plan of the snake / Edward Wellen -- Two-way street / Brian Garfield -- The pair of gloves / Charles Dickens -- After twenty years / O. Henry -- The export trade / Leslie Charteris -- Problems solved / Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg -- The release / Cornell Woolrich -- We spy / Clark Howard -- The leopard man's story / Jack London -- The little things / Isaac Asimov -- The reindeer clue / Ellery Queen -- Top man / Jonathan Craig -- Creature of habit / William Campbell Gault -- Weeds / Charlene Weir -- Something very special / Fletcher Flora -- Shatterproof / Jack Ritchie -- Project Mushroom / Julie Smith -- Terror in the night / Robert Bloch -- Drum beat / Stephen Marlowe -- Invited witness / George Harmon Coxe -- Poison / Katherine Mansfield -- The scientist and the vanished weapon / Arthur Porges -- Night walker / Robert J. Randisi -- The innocent one / Evan Hunter -- Funny you should ask / Lawrence Block -- Castle in Spain / Julian Symons -- Proposal perilous / Morris Hershman -- The crooked picture / John Lutz -- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton -- This one's on me / Edward Hunsburger -- To strike a match / Erle Stanley Gardner -- Hush-a-bye, my baby / Anton Chekhov -- Because the constable blundered / Francis M. Nevins, Jr. -- Cloak and digger / John Jakes -- To avoid a scandal / Talmage Powell -- The prevalence of monsters / Thomas B. Dewey -- The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman -- The pulque vendor / Hal Ellson -- Death threat / Susan Dunlap -- By the sea, by the sea / Hal Dresner -- The night runner / Nedra Tyre -- The little old lady from…
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories
