How long does it take to read The Hollow Needle?
The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc takes about 4 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1909. 226 pages, about 62,150 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 97 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A bizarre crime happens in castle Ambrumésy in France. Thieves break into the parlour, kill a man, steal something but nothing did disappear. One of the men is trapped in the garden with no possibility to escape but can't be found, even after days of research. The investigating judge and the police are perplexed when they get unfortunate help from a grammar school pupil. A book featuring the well known gentleman-like burgler Arsène Lupin.
Subjects: Fiction, Burglars, Arsène Lupin (Fictitious character), detective story, Young women, fiction, France, fiction
