How long does it take to read Great Detectives?
Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, David Willis McCullough
Great Detectives by Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, David Willis McCullough takes about 13 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1984. 728 pages, about 200,200 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From Sam Spade to Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe, Lord Peter Wimsey, and the formidable Ellery Queen, Great Detectives assembles the star sleuths of the past century in a dazzling array of classic tales. There has never been a collection to match this one, featuring sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America. --From dust jacket. Contents: Foreword / David Willis McCullough -- The big bow mystery / Israel Zangwill -- The queen's square / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton -- The girl in the train / Agatha Christie -- The murder on the lotus pond / Robert van Gulik -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- The Sam Spade stories: A man called Spade ; They can only hang you once ; Too many have lived / Dashiell Hammett -- The hunchback cat / Edmund Crispin -- Trouble is my business / Raymond Chandler -- The adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen -- See no evil / Rex Stout -- Yesterday I lived! / Ray Bradbury -- The chill / Ross Macdonald -- The murder of Santa Claus / P.D. James -- Never shake a family tree / Donald E. Westlake -- Death notes / Ruth Rendell -- Sadie when she died / Ed McBain.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Anthology, American Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction
