How long does it take to read A Coffin for Dimitrios?
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler takes about 4 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 41 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1939. 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 65 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans. The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, The Mask of Dimitrios (published as A Coffin for Dimitrios in the United States) remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Novelists, British, Orient Express (Express train), Railroad travel, Smuggling
