How long does it take to read Lock No. 1?
Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1933. 176 pages, about 48,400 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Paris (france), fiction