How long does it take to read Tom Sawyer, Detective?
Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain takes about 1 hour 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Tom Sawyer books
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About 1 hour 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1897. 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 276 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time. This novel, like the others, is told through the first-person narrative of Huck Finn.
Subjects: Fiction, Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), American Authors, Biography, Mystery and detective stories, Detective and mystery stories
