How long does it take to read Five Little Pigs?
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 24 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
Previous: Evil Under the Sun Next: The Hollow
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1942. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 111 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared.
Subjects: Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery, Murder
