How long does it take to read Behind That Curtain?
a Charlie Chan mystery
Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers takes about 5 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 5 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1928. 324 pages, about 89,100 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 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 94 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is a murder mystery set in San Francisco. Charlie Chan the Chinese detective, on his way home to Honolulu, is persuaded to help with the investigation of the murder of a retired Scotland Yard commissioner. Sir Frederic has been re-investigating some old unsolved cases that have haunted him: a murder in London and the disappearance of a young woman in India. Charlie Chan suspects that one of these cases holds the clue to his murder.
Subjects: Fiction, Charlie Chan (Fictitious character), Police, Honolulu (Hawaii), Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction
