How long does it take to read The Final Deduction?
a Nero Wolfe novel
The Final Deduction by Rex Stout takes about 2 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 2 hours 36 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1955. 142 pages, about 39,050 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mrs. Vail's husband has been kidnapped. She doesn't want to hire Nero Wolfe to find him, just to make sure that his kidnappers don't kill him. When he returns safely, but her secretary is killed, Nero Wolfe is drawn reluctantly into the investigation.
Subjects: mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
