How long does it take to read The Two Dead Girls?
The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King takes about 1 hour 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Green Mile
Next: The Mouse on the Mile
About 1 hour 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1996. 92 pages, about 25,300 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Green Mile #1 The story is told by former prison guard, Paul Edgecombe, of events in Cold Mountain penitentiary during 1932 when an unusual inmate by the name of John Coffey is brought to the prison. He and his fellow guards are assigned to watch inmates on death row, known as The Green Mile. John Coffey has been convicted of murdering two young girls and sentenced to death but there's something about him that makes Paul question whether this man could have committed that crime.
Subjects: horror fiction, fiction, death row inmates, prisons, Executions and executioners, jails
