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How long does it take to read The Red Box?

a Nero Wolfe mystery

Rex Stout

The Red Box by Rex Stout takes about 3 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 3 hours 42 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1937. 202 pages, about 55,550 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 10 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 42 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 19 minutes

The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction

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