How long does it take to read Cop Killer?
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 9 of Martin Beck
Previous: The Locked Room Next: The Terrorists
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since.Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre.Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Martin Beck (Fictitious character), Swedish fiction, Sweden, fiction, Stockholm (sweden), fiction
