How long does it take to read The Oxford Book of Detective Stories?
Patricia Craig, Émile Gaboriau, John Charles Dent, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Maurice Leblanc, Palle Rosenkrantz, William Briggs MacHarg, Jacques Futrelle, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, James Thurber, Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Simenon, Ellery Queen, Seichō Matsumoto, Robert van Gulik, Paolo Levi, Gwendoline Butler, Josef Škvorecký, Amanda Cross, Janwillem van de Wetering, Ted Wood, James Melville, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Shizuko Natsuki, Sarah Caudwell, Sue Grafton, Vincent Banville, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Sara Paretsky, Pentti Kirstilä, Garry Disher, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories by Patricia Craig, Émile Gaboriau, John Charles Dent, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Maurice Leblanc, Palle Rosenkrantz, William Briggs MacHarg, Jacques Futrelle, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, James Thurber, Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Simenon, Ellery Queen, Seichō Matsumoto, Robert van Gulik, Paolo Levi, Gwendoline Butler, Josef Škvorecký, Amanda Cross, Janwillem van de Wetering, Ted Wood, James Melville, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Shizuko Natsuki, Sarah Caudwell, Sue Grafton, Vincent Banville, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Sara Paretsky, Pentti Kirstilä, Garry Disher, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin takes about 10 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 587 pages, about 161,425 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories
