How long does it take to read Cards on the Table?
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 14 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
Previous: The A.B.C. Murders Next: Murder in Mesopotamia
About 4 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 236 pages, about 64,900 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 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 107 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths--Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His Majesty's Secret Service; and the incomparable Hercule Poirot - invited to play bridge with four specially invited guests, each of whom had gotten away with murder! But before the first rubber was completed, the host was dead.
Subjects: Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery
