How long does it take to read Farewell, My Lovely?
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler takes about 4 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Philip Marlowe
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About 4 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1940. 266 pages, about 73,150 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 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
Subjects: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Mystery, Hard-Boiled
