How long does it take to read The Black Book?
The Black Book by Ian Rankin takes about 6 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of Inspector Rebus
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About 6 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 346 pages, about 95,150 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must pierce together a jigsaw no one -- perhaps not even he -- wants completed.
Subjects: Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, Inspector Rebus (fictional character), detective
