How long does it take to read Hag's Nook?
Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr takes about 3 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Gideon Fell
Next: The Mad Hatter Mystery
About 3 hours 32 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1933. 193 pages, about 53,075 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hag's Nook, first published in 1933, is a detective novel by John Dickson Carr and the first to feature his series detective Gideon Fell. Tad Rampole is a young American traveling in England who, in a chance encounter on a railway platform, meets and falls in love with Dorothy Starberth. Rampole has a letter of introduction to Dr. Gideon Fell and both soon become involved in the affairs of the Starberth family. The family has a long history as having been the governors of Chatterham Prison and, in connection with that post, there is also a tradition that the "Starberths die of broken necks". Chatterham is now abandoned and inhabited only by rats, but the eldest son and heir to the Starberth family must spend the evening of his 25th birthday there, as directed by an ancestral will.
Subjects: Fiction, Gideon Fell (Fictitious character), Private investigators
