How long does it take to read Maigret's Little Joke?
Maigret's Little Joke by Georges Simenon takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 176 pages, about 48,400 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 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Sûreté's Chief Inspector Maigret was resigned to the vacation his doctor advised, so "officially" he went to the seashore—and stayed in Paris. Which would have been just fine—for Paris is an ideal vacation locale—except that the inspector opened a newspaper and read the shocking news about the murder of a doctor's wife... and the inspector was a man hunter, vacation or no!
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Kriminalfall, Fiction, crime, Paris (france), fiction
