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How long does it take to read The Four of Hearts?

Ellery Queen

The Four of Hearts by Ellery Queen takes about 5 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 5 hours 31 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1938. 301 pages, about 82,775 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 12 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 31 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Fiction, Police, Motion picture industry, Novelists, Fathers and sons, Screenwriters

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