How long does it take to read The Black Mountain?
a Nero Wolfe novel
The Black Mountain by Rex Stout takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Nero Wolfe
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About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nero Wolfe's oldest friend, Marko Vukcic, has been murdered. Wolfe's quest to find the murderer forces him (and the long-suffering Archie) to return to his homeland, Montenegro, where Yugoslav and Russian communists are all likely to kill him. Not to mention the difficulty of climbing a mountain when one weighs a seventh of a ton.
Subjects: Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction
