How long does it take to read The Coffin Dancer?
The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver takes about 8 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Lincoln Rhyme
Previous: The Bone Collector Next: The Empty Chair
About 8 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 453 pages, about 124,575 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually eluded the police. Rhymes —-a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident — must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who’s been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony. Rhyme works with his eyes and ears, New York City cop Amelia Sachs, to gather information from trace evidence at the crime scene to nail him, or at least to predict his next move and head him off. So far, they have only one clue: the assassin has a tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a coffin.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Police, Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character, Lincoln Rhyme (Fictitious character), Fiction, Quadriplegics
