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How long does it take to read Postern of Fate?

Agatha Christie

Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 5 of Tommy and Tuppence

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About 4 hours 42 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1973. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 42 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 56 minutes

The page count is the median across 75 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.

Subjects: Tommy Beresford (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Married people, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction

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