How long does it take to read The Unexpected Guest?
The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie takes about 1 hour 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 26 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1958. 78 pages, about 21,450 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Driving through dense Welsh fog, Michael Starkwedder runs his car into a ditch. After making his way to an isolated house, he discovers Laura Warwick standing near the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband Richard, revolver in hand. She admits to murder, and her unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. But it is possible that Laura did not commit the crime after all ... If so, who is she shielding? The victim's mentally disabled half-brother? Her lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy Richard accidentally killed? The house seems full of possible suspects ...
Subjects: Detective, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, England, fiction, Drama, Englisch
