How long does it take to read Maigret at the Coroner's?
Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Maigret collection
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About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 189 pages, about 51,975 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Chief Superintendent Margret finds himself, to his own surprise, attending an inquest in Tucson. Arizona, deposited there by an American colleague front the FBI. It in his first taste of the American judicial system, and he finds it strange indeed. Bessie Mitchell had been found dead on the railroad tracks between Tucson and Nogales. That night she had been in a car with a group of lusty young men. four of whom had been manifestly clouds. Why had they abandoned Bessie in the desert? Obviously the men were covering up for each other. Margret was boiling to get the truth out of them, French style. But this was the United States. While the coroner does his questioning. Margret runs an internal commentary on two different cultures and systems, adding humor and an intriguing perspective to a complex murder mystery.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Paris (france), fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Kriminalfall
