How long does it take to read In the Best Families?
a Nero Wolfe mystery
In the Best Families by Rex Stout takes about 4 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Nero Wolfe
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About 4 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 246 pages, about 67,650 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 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, Wolfe, Nero (Personnage fictif), Romans, nouvelles
