How long does it take to read Novels?
Novels by Dashiell Hammett takes about 13 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1965. 726 pages, about 199,650 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929) epitomizes the violence and momentum of his Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op, in a raucous and nightmarish evocation of political corruption and gang warfare in a western mining town. In The Dain Curse (1929) the Op returns in a more melodramatic tale involving jewel theft, drugs, and a religious cult. With The Maltese Falcon (1930) and its protagonist Sam Spade, Hammett achieved his most enduring popular success, a tightly constructed quest story shot through with a sense of disillusionment and the arbitrariness of personal destiny. The Glass Key (1931) is a further exploration of city politics at their most scurrilous. His last novel was The Thin Man (1934), a ruefully comic tale paying homage to the traditional mystery form and featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated inebriates who would enjoy a long afterlife in the movies.
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, American, Conto, Literatura norte-americana, United States
