How long does it take to read The Corpse Had a Familiar Face?
covering Miami, America's hottest beat
Edna Buchanan
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan takes about 7 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 388 pages, about 106,700 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald."
Subjects: Memoir, Newspaper Reporting, Biography, Crime, Crime and the press, Journalists
