How long does it take to read 4:50 from Paddington?
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of Miss Marple
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About 4 hours 41 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 255 pages, about 70,125 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 140 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murder, Investigation
