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How long does it take to read Home Sweet Homicide?

Craig Rice

Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 43 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1946. 312 pages, about 85,800 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 32 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 35 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Widowed mystery writer Marian Carstairs is a mother of three living off the sales of her books. Her children, Dinah (14), April (12), and Archie (10), inspired by reading their mother’s fictitious mystery novels, decide to take part in some amateur sleuthing when they hear shots in the house next door. Understanding detective work from the novels, they take specific notes on clues that they encounter, but they also falsify their testimonies to the cops with the end goal of crediting the solved case back to their mother for publicity purposes.

Subjects: Single mothers, American Women authors, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, humorous, Authors, fiction

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