How long does it take to read This Night's Foul Work?
This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Commissioner Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg
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About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut, and despite the common assumption that the crime is a drug-related incident, Commissaire Adamsberg becomes convinced that the deaths are the work of a serial killer with split personalities and enlists the assistance of pathologist Ariane Lagarde to help him unravel the truth.
Subjects: Fiction, Murder, Police, Investigation, French Detective and mystery stories, Detectives
