How long does it take to read Nero Wolfe:Fer De Lance?
Nero Wolfe:Fer De Lance by Rex Stout takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Nero Wolfe
Next: The League of Frightened Men
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1934. 285 pages, about 78,375 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From a cover blurb: As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart. This is the very first Nero Wolfe novel that Rex Stout published. You can see the hallmarks of Wolfe's world already, Archie Goodwin, beer, food and clever villains.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Friend authors, American Detective and mystery stories
