How long does it take to read The Clocks?
The Clocks by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 38 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
Previous: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Next: Third Girl
About 4 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 257 pages, about 70,675 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 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 99 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila’s secretarial agency and asking for her by name — yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb’s ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 — his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories
