How long does it take to read The Throat?
The Throat by Peter Straub takes about 12 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Blue Rose Trilogy
Previous: Mystery
About 12 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 704 pages, about 193,600 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tim Underhill, now an acclaimed novelist, travels back to his hometown of Millhaven, Illinois after he gets a call from John Ransom, an old army buddy. Ransom believes there's a copycat killer on the loose, mimicking the Blue Rose murders from decades earlier-he thinks his wife could be a potential victim. Underhill seeks out his old friend Tom Pasmore, an aging hermit who has attained minor celebrity as an expert sleuth, to help him investigate. They quickly discover that Millhaven is a town plagued by horrifying secrets and there is a twisted killer on the loose who is far more dangerous than they ever imagined. Expertly tying together the events of Koko and Mystery, The Throat proves Peter Straub to be the master of the suspense novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Veterans, Detective and mystery stories, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction, Tom Pasmore (Fictitious character)
