How long does it take to read The Chinese Gold Murders?
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van Gulik takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Van Gulik's Judge Dee series
Previous: The Chinese Bell Murders Next: Six Cases for Judge Dee
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 221 pages, about 60,775 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Soon after taking up his first magisterial post in the godforsaken district of Peng-lai, Judge Dee must look into the murder of his predecessor.
Subjects: Fiction, Judges, History, China, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical
