How long does it take to read Too Many Cooks?
Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1938. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nero Wolfe leaves his Manhattan brownstone to travel to the resort of Kanawha Spa, in order to give a speech to a group of famous chefs (and not coincidentally, to eat each man's specialties, prepared for an annual dinner). When one of their number is killed, Wolfe and Archie have to wade through a tangled web of lies and clues, both criminal and gustatory.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction
