How long does it take to read The Twelfth Card?
The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Lincoln Rhyme
Previous: The Vanished Man Next: The Cold Moon
About 9 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 544 pages, about 149,600 words. Written for young adults.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.
Subjects: African American teenage girls, Murder for hire, Quadriplegics, Police, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general
