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How many pages is 4:50 from Paddington?

4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie has a median of 256 pages across 31 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 207 to 270 pages.

Median pages
256
31 editions counted
Range
156–391
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
70k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
4 h 31 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

2003004001960198020001957: 256 pages1957: 256 pages1957: 262 pages1957: 194 pages1957: 256 pages1957: 156 pages1957: 192 pages1959: 256 pages1960: 190 pages1965: 391 pages1965: 391 pages1969: 190 pages1974: 220 pages1975: 256 pages1975: 185 pages1982: 192 pages1983: 189 pages1984: 229 pages1987: 277 pages1989: 391 pages1990: 371 pages1992: 224 pages2000: 224 pages2002: 224 pages2005: 320 pages2006: 262 pages2007: 288 pages2016: 288 pages2016: 242 pages2018: 256 pagesmedian 256
200300400197520001957: 256 pages1957: 256 pages1957: 262 pages1957: 194 pages1957: 256 pages1957: 156 pages1957: 192 pages1959: 256 pages1960: 190 pages1965: 391 pages1965: 391 pages1969: 190 pages1974: 220 pages1975: 256 pages1975: 185 pages1982: 192 pages1983: 189 pages1984: 229 pages1987: 277 pages1989: 391 pages1990: 371 pages1992: 224 pages2000: 224 pages2002: 224 pages2005: 320 pages2006: 262 pages2007: 288 pages2016: 288 pages2016: 242 pages2018: 256 pagesmedian 256
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover28835 h 05 min
Paperback22423 h 57 min
Mass market22023 h 53 min

Editions counted

The 31 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 140 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018HarperCollins Publishers Limited–256OL28696584M
2016Harper–288OL28617748M
2016CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–242OL54977744M
2007Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersHardcover288OL8756692M
2006Collins–262OL46907004M
2005HarperCollins Publishers–320OL7263627M
2002HarperCollins Publishers Ltd–224OL7261608M
2000SignetPaperback224OL7574254M

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Questions

How many pages is 4:50 from Paddington?
About 256 pages: that is the median of 31 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 156 to 391 pages.
How long does it take to read 4:50 from Paddington?
About 4 h 31 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
How many words is 4:50 from Paddington?
Roughly 70,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).