How long does it take to read Death in the Clouds?
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Hercule Poirot
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About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1935. 254 pages, about 69,850 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 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 107 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat number thirteen, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat number eight, a writer of detective fiction is being troubled by an aggressive wasp. Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take it all in--except that the passenger in the seat directly behind him has slumped over in the course of the flight ... dead. Murdered. By someone in Poirot's immediate proximity. And Poirot himself must number among the suspects.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Murder, English Detective and mystery stories
