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How long does it take to read The Patience of the Spider?

Andrea Camilleri

The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 11 of Commissario Montalbano

Previous: Rounding the Mark Next: The Paper Moon

About 4 hours 42 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2007. 256 pages, about 70,400 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 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 42 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 56 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri's internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano seriesWinning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in Rounding the Mark, he must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing self-doubt to penetrate a web of hatred and secrets in pursuit of the strangest culprit he's ever hunted. A mystery unlike any other, this emotionally taut story brings the Montalbano saga to a captivating crossroads.

Subjects: Fiction, Salvo Montalbano (Fictitious character), Mystery, Suspense, Mystery fiction, Crime, fiction

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