How long does it take to read Death of a Doxy?
Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Nero Wolfe
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About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Orrie Cather is engaged to Jill, but he's been seeing Isabel on the side. When he asks Archie Goodwin to break into her apartment and retrieve some incriminating paperwork, Archie agrees - but finds Isabel bludgeoned to death. Wolfe sets out to clear Orrie of the crime, and in doing so uncovers secrets about Isabel and her love life that a number of people would rather stay hidden. Isabel's best friend, a showgirl named Julie Jacquette, decides to take a hand, and the immovable force (Nero Wolfe) just may have met the irresistable object.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), American Detective and mystery stories, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
