How long does it take to read Maigret at the Crossroads?
Maigret at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Maigret collection
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About 3 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1931. 184 pages, about 50,600 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 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A classic among Simenons, this is the story of Maigret's night vigil at the Three Widows' Crossroads, where the body of a Jewish diamond-merchant had been found. Pompous M. Michonnet, at one house, owned the car containing the corpse; aristocratic Carl Andersen, the Dane, owned the garage containing the car; and vulgar M. Oscar, at the service-station, simply sold petrol to all-comers. None of them knew a thing. Then the victim's widow is shot dead at Maigret's feet, and he plunges into action to uncover a tight little criminal web with a woman at the center of it.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, crime, Detective and mystery stories
