How long does it take to read The Little Sister?
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler takes about 4 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Philip Marlowe
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About 4 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1949. 253 pages, about 69,575 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas to find her missing brother Orrin - or that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly 20 bucks for the privilege. Before long he wishes he wasn't so charitable as the trail leads to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks...
Subjects: Private investigators, Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
