How long does it take to read Murder in Three Acts?
Murder in Three Acts by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Canon of Hercule Poirot
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About 4 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1934. 242 pages, about 66,550 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 103 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…
Subjects: Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Murder in fiction, Murder, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction
