How long does it take to read Eight Black Horses?
Eight Black Horses by Ed Mcbain takes about 4 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 4 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 270 pages, about 74,250 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This compelling story of death and retribution skillfully combines the day-to-day action of a pricinct station house with the tense drama of the search for the Deaf Man, a particularly abhorrent villain.
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Steve Carella (Fictitious character), Isola (imaginary place), fiction, New york (state), fiction
