How long does it take to read A Walk Among the Tombstones?
A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block takes about 5 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 10 of Matthew Scudder
Previous: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse Next: The Devil Knows You're Dead
About 5 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 319 pages, about 87,725 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #10. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Subjects: Mystery, Drug traffic, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Matt Scudder (Fictitious character)
