How long does it take to read The Mystery of the Blue Train?
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of Canon of Hercule Poirot
Previous: The Big Four Next: Peril at End House
About 4 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1928. 258 pages, about 70,950 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 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 124 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress bailing out of a doomed marriage is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on. Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold...
Subjects: Crimes against, Detective and mystery stories, Divorce, Divorce in fiction, Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
