How long does it take to read Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets?
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets by Georges Simenon takes about 3 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Maigret collection
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About 3 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1931. 179 pages, about 49,225 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 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published as Le Pendu de St Pholien, this early Simenon records how Maigret unwittingly drove a little man to suicide. You'd have said that Louis Jeunet was a down-at-heel layabout, but he was packeting up over 30,000 francs when Maigret first spotted him in Brussels. When he posted the money, unregistered, as 'Printed Matter', Maigret followed him for fun. He took a train for the north. At the German frontier Maigret switched suitcases, in a spirit of idle curiosity, but when Jeunet discovered his loss at Bremen he took out a gun and shot himself, and Maigret was left to cope with his own culpability. His subsequent inquiries provoked two attempts on his life and eventually led to Liege, Simenon's birthplace, where in a crazy slum he taps the source of a macabre story which is reminiscent of Francois Villon.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Kriminalfall, Crime, fiction, Paris (france), fiction
