How long does it take to read Hallowe'en Party?
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 40 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
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About 4 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 100 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe’en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue -- and for being generally unpleasant. But when the girl, Joyce, is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, Mrs Oliver wonders after the fictional nature of the girl’s claim that she had once witnessed a murder. Which of the party guests wanted to keep her quiet is a question for Ariadne’s friend Hercule Poirot. But unmasking a killer this Hallowe’en is not going to be easy -- for there isn’t a soul in Woodleigh who believes the late little storyteller was actually murdered.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- death of a child
- suicide
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Murder, Murder Mystery, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction
