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How long does it take to read Killer Clown?

Terry Sullivan

Killer Clown by Terry Sullivan takes about 6 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 53 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1983. 375 pages, about 103,125 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 28 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 53 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 18 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried beneath his house of horrors—until a teenaged boy disappeared before Christmas in 1978, leading prosecutor Terry Sullivan on the greatest manhunt of his career. Reconstructing the investigation—from records of violence in Gacy's past, to the gruesome discovery of twenty-nine corpses of abused boys in Gacy's crawlspace and four others found in the nearby river—Sullivan's shocking eyewitness account takes you where few true crime books ever go: inside the heart of a serial murder investigation and trial.

Subjects: Murderers, Case studies, Murder, Biography, Criminals

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