How long does it take to read Dead Beat?
Dead Beat by Val McDermid takes about 4 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 220 pages, about 60,500 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Dead Beat" introduces private detective Kate Brannigan. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock. It is a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford; but little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder.
Subjects: Fiction, Kate Brannigan (Fictitious character), Women private investigators in fiction, Women private investigators, Women detectives, Women detectives in fiction
