How long does it take to read White Butterfly?
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley takes about 5 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Easy Rawlins
Previous: A Red Death Next: Black Betty
About 5 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 295 pages, about 81,125 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....
Subjects: Easy Rawlins (Fictitious character), Detectives, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, African American men
