How long does it take to read A Red Death?
A Red Death by Walter Mosley takes about 5 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Easy Rawlins
Previous: Devil in a Blue Dress Next: White Butterfly
About 5 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 278 pages, about 76,450 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, African American men, Easy Rawlins (Fictitious character), Literary, Mystery & Detective
