Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery is 6th and 7th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 4 |
SMOG Index | Grade 8 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 6 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery is 82,770 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 32 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 12 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 4 mins.
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery - 82,770 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 9 hrs 12 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 32 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 4 mins |
for The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
“I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands.”— Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl"[A] masterful and multi-layered puzzle . . . adding a new dimension to a much-loved series." — NPRThe world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile—returns to solve a delectably twisty mysteryHercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family.The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot’s curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached . . .Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?"Yet again, the diminutive man with the little gray cells delivers the goods." —Wall Street Journal