Author · born 15 September 1890 · died 12 January 1976

Agatha Christie books: page counts

66 books by Agatha Christie with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books

with page data

Longest

307

Death on the Nile

Shortest

190

Crooked House

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Open Library edition records.

Every book

Book	First published	Median pages	Range	Reading time
Murder is Easy	1969	224	123–371	3 h 57 min
Appointment with Death	1976	214	125–326	3 h 46 min
Hercule Poirot's Christmas	1987	256	167–416	4 h 31 min
At Bertram's Hotel	2006	254	192–346	4 h 29 min
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	2006	255	128–534	4 h 30 min
4:50 from Paddington	–	256	156–391	4 h 31 min
A Caribbean Mystery	–	221	158–299	3 h 54 min
A Murder Is Announced	–	240	128–448	4 h 14 min
A Pocket Full of Rye	–	191	174–317	3 h 22 min
After the Funeral	–	226	191–422	3 h 59 min
And Then There Were None	–	224	128–320	3 h 57 min
Cards on the Table	–	224	142–343	3 h 57 min
Cat Among the Pigeons	–	256	200–352	4 h 31 min
Crooked House	–	190	122–331	3 h 21 min
Curtain	–	230	184–310	4 h 03 min
Dead Man's Folly	–	218	166–262	3 h 51 min
Death in the Clouds	–	229	188–370	4 h 02 min
Death on the Nile	–	307	179–480	5 h 25 min
Destination Unknown	–	196	122–355	3 h 27 min
Dumb Witness	–	260	170–411	4 h 34 min
Elephants Can Remember	–	241	160–368	4 h 15 min
Endless Night	–	238	144–342	4 h 11 min
Evil Under the Sun	–	224	128–320	3 h 57 min
Five Little Pigs	–	222	152–336	3 h 55 min
Hallowe'en Party	–	244	185–336	4 h 18 min
Hickory Dickory Death	–	200	128–352	3 h 32 min
Lord Edgware Dies	–	252	192–380	4 h 27 min
Mrs. McGinty's Dead	–	229	180–320	4 h 02 min
Murder in Mesopotamia	–	228	190–368	4 h 01 min
Murder in Three Acts	–	252	175–345	4 h 27 min
Murder on the Links	–	224	170–456	3 h 57 min
Murder on the Orient Express	–	242	126–372	4 h 16 min
N or M?	–	224	169–384	3 h 57 min
Nemesis	–	242	181–421	4 h 16 min
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe	–	211	144–322	3 h 43 min
Ordeal by Innocence	–	254	126–374	4 h 29 min
Partners in Crime	–	226	187–448	3 h 59 min
Passenger to Frankfurt	–	230	192–387	4 h 03 min
Peril at End House	–	231	130–327	4 h 04 min
Poirot Investigates	–	196	105–356	3 h 27 min
Sad Cypress	–	235	114–362	4 h 09 min
Sleeping Murder	–	242	183–344	4 h 16 min
Sparkling Cyanide	–	240	160–357	4 h 14 min
Taken at the Flood	–	224	190–386	3 h 57 min
The A.B.C. Murders	–	230	128–357	4 h 03 min
The Big Four	–	214	126–312	3 h 47 min
The Body in the Library	–	192	92–305	3 h 23 min
The Clocks	–	256	214–438	4 h 31 min
The Hollow	–	255	190–431	4 h 30 min
The Labours of Hercules	–	264	246–467	4 h 39 min
The Man in the Brown Suit	–	238	128–416	4 h 12 min
The Moving Finger	–	204	124–331	3 h 36 min
The Murder at the Vicarage	–	255	122–397	4 h 30 min
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	–	256	128–414	4 h 31 min
The Mysterious Affair at Styles	–	204	96–445	3 h 36 min
The Mystery of the Blue Train	–	286	156–558	5 h 02 min
The Secret Adversary	–	298	148–606	5 h 15 min
The Secret of Chimneys	–	250	218–448	4 h 25 min
The Seven Dials Mystery	–	237	172–450	4 h 11 min
The Sittaford Mystery	–	224	190–386	3 h 57 min
The Thirteen Problems	–	224	187–358	3 h 57 min
They Came to Baghdad	–	224	192–384	3 h 57 min
They Do It with Mirrors	–	192	122–320	3 h 23 min
Third Girl	–	256	188–406	4 h 30 min
Towards Zero	–	220	160–400	3 h 53 min
Why Didn't they Ask Evans?	–	252	174–416	4 h 27 min

Reading all 66 takes about 272 h 25 min at average speed (15,453 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).