How long does it take to read The Strange Tale of Panorama Island?
Suehiro Maruo, Edogawa Rampo
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo, Edogawa Rampo takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 275 pages, about 75,625 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the twisted path of failed novelist Hitomi Hirosuke, who bears an uncanny resemblance to a former classmate, the son of a rich industrialist family. Learning of the rich man's sudden passing, Hitomi fakes his own death, digs up and hides the other man's body, and then washes himself up on a beach near the home of the dead man's family.
Subjects: Comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery, False personation, Comic books, strips, Hedonism
