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Arthur Conan Doyle books: page counts

11 books by Arthur Conan Doyle with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
11
with page data
Longest
1,122
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Shortest
162
A Study in Scarlet

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)289The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1930)1,122Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1979)259The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)209The Sign of Four (1982)169A Study in Scarlet (2005)162His Last Bow (2005)236The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]…312The Lost World (2005)246The Return of Sherlock Holmes (2005)367The Valley of Fear (2005)208
The Case-Book of She…289The Complete Sherloc…1,122Memoirs of Sherlock …259The Hound of the Bas…209The Sign of Four (19…169A Study in Scarlet (…162His Last Bow (2005)236The Adventures of Sh…312The Lost World (2005)246The Return of Sherlo…367The Valley of Fear (…208
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes1927289142–5215 h 06 min
The Complete Sherlock Holmes19301,122688–1,77719 h 47 min
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes1979259129–4724 h 34 min
The Hound of the Baskervilles198120996–4444 h 01 min
The Sign of Four198216980–3062 h 59 min
A Study in Scarlet200516276–2882 h 51 min
His Last Bow2005236109–3674 h 10 min
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]2005312144–6645 h 30 min
The Lost World2005246120–4474 h 20 min
The Return of Sherlock Holmes2005367181–6006 h 28 min
The Valley of Fear200520896–3963 h 40 min

Reading all 11 takes about 63 h 26 min at average speed (3,579 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)).