How long does it take to read Curtain?
Curtain by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 42 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
Previous: Elephants Can Remember
About 4 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 238 pages, about 65,450 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 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 113 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot’s declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?…
Subjects: Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Murderers, Country homes
