How long does it take to read Maigret and the Wine Merchant?
Georges Simenon, Eileen Ellenbogen
Maigret and the Wine Merchant by Georges Simenon, Eileen Ellenbogen takes about 3 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Maigret collection
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About 3 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 187 pages, about 51,425 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 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
French chief inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a wealthy wine merchant outside of a house of ill repute. But no one seems to care that Oscar Chabut is dead.
Subjects: Crime Fiction, Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Wine and wine making, Paris (france), fiction