How long does it take to read Jealous Man Can't Win?
Jealous Man Can't Win by Chester Himes takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Harlem Cycle
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About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1959. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A & P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.
Subjects: African American police, Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New york (n.y.), fiction
