How long does it take to read A Purple Place for Dying?
A Purple Place for Dying by John D. MacDonald takes about 4 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Travis McGee
Previous: The Deep Blue Goodbye Next: Nightmare in Pink
About 4 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 223 pages, about 61,325 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Travis McGee #3 Travis McGee is summoned to Arizona by a rich, beautiful arrogant woman. And then she's dead - shot in the back at long range, lying crumpled on the ground at his feet. With the would-be client eliminated, and on a dime's worth of fee in his pocket, any ordinary detective would walk away fast. But Travis McGee is no ordinary detective.
Subjects: Fiction, Travis McGee (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Florida, fiction, Fort lauderdale (fla.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
