How long does it take to read D Is for Deadbeat?
D Is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton takes about 4 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Kinsey Millhone
Previous: "C" Is for Corpse Next: "E" Is for Evidence
About 4 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 261 pages, about 71,775 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator... Female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when it comes to justice, but I'll lie at the drop of a hat. Inconsistency has never troubled me..." It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed easy enough... until his cheque bounced. His real name was Dagett. John Dagett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident – death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. The man, it seemed, had a lot of enemies...
Subjects: Fiction, Kinsey Millhone (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Impostors and imposture
