How long does it take to read The Crab with the Golden Claws?
The Crab with the Golden Claws by Hergé takes about 1 hour 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 9 of The Adventures of Tintin
Previous: King Ottokar's Sceptre Next: The Shooting Star
About 1 hour 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1958. 62 pages, about 17,050 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Following a series of mysterious clues, Tintin and Snowy trail a dangerous gang of opium-smugglers through the scorching Sahara desert and the alleys of a Moroccan port.
Subjects: Comic books, strips, Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, Pictorial Belgian wit and humor, Cartoons and comics, Children's fiction
