How long does it take to read The Impossible Dead?
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Malcolm Fox
Previous: The Complaints
About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Asked to take on a simple case of police abuse, Malcolm Fox suddenly finds himself digging up a macabre death from the eighties. Little does he know that the answers he finds in that dark period of Scottish history will lead him to the highest echelons of power"--Jacket.
Subjects: Murder, Police corruption, Investigation, Police internal investigation, Police, Fiction
