How long does it take to read Blind Man with a Pistol?
Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Harlem Cycle
Previous: The Big Gold Dream Next: The Heat's On
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace, their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence, Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart."--Back cover.
Subjects: African American police, Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New york (n.y.), fiction
