How long does it take to read The Dain Curse?
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett takes about 4 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1929. 231 pages, about 63,525 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
Subjects: Private investigators, Fiction, Continental Op (Fictitious character), Private investigators, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
