How long does it take to read Black Orchids?
Black Orchids by Rex Stout takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Nero Wolfe
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About 3 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1942. 200 pages, about 55,000 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The private detective, Nero Wolfe, with the aid of his assistant, Archie Goodwin, investigates a killing at a flower show and a series of poison-pen letters that result in murder.
Subjects: Fiction, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, American, Private investigators, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
