How long does it take to read Playback?
Playback by Raymond Chandler takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Philip Marlowe
Previous: The Long Goodbye Next: Poodle Springs
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Chandler's final novel, Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
Subjects: Private investigators, Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
