How long does it take to read The Sins of the Fathers?
The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block takes about 3 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Matthew Scudder
Next: Time to Murder and Create
About 3 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1960. 186 pages, about 51,150 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #1. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Matt Scudder (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, New york (n.y.), fiction
