How long does it take to read The Pale Criminal?
The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr takes about 4 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Berlin Noir trilogy
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About 4 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 272 pages, about 74,800 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bernhard Gunther, a private investigator in Germany in 1938, is hired by a rich widow to discover who has been blackmailing her, and by the Berlin police to track down a serial killer, and runs into bizarre psychotherapy and medicinal practices and Nazi occultism.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, History, Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character), Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
