How long does it take to read Maigret's Dead Man?
Maigret's Dead Man 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 1948. 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 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, French, French Detective and mystery stories, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Paris (france), fiction
