How long does it take to read The Golden Spiders?
The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Published 1953. A street kid who washes car windows at street corners for nickels and dimes comes to Wolfe with a disturbing report of a terrified woman passenger in a car that he has accosted. The next day the boy is dead - run down in the street. A second witness who comes forward is also murdered, leaving Archie and Wolfe with precious little to go on but the clue of a pair of unique earrings - shaped like golden spiders.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction
