How long does it take to read Octagon House?
Octagon House by Phoebe Atwood Taylor takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1937. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
> The citizens of Quanomet are quite naturally in an uproar when they find themselves unflatteringly portrayed on a mural in the new post office. But could any one of them be angry enough to kill? Asey Mayo begins to suspect so when the corpse of a beautiful model is discovered in the garage at Octagon House. When he also learns that somebody in town is after fifty thousand dollars worth of missing ambergris, the motives, and dangers, multiply.
Subjects: Asey Mayo (Fictitious character), Fiction, Private investigators, Massachusetts, fiction, Cape cod (mass.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
