How long does it take to read The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing?
Rosemary Herbert, Catherine Aird, John M. Reilly
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing by Rosemary Herbert, Catherine Aird, John M. Reilly takes about 9 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 535 pages, about 147,125 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities." --"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Encyclopedias, Mystery fiction, Roman policier, Encyclopedies, Criminalite? dans la litterature
