How long does it take to read Death on the Nile?
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie takes about 5 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 16 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
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About 5 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1937. 281 pages, about 77,275 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 188 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...
Subjects: Belgians, Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, English Detective and mystery stories, murder
