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How many pages is A Caribbean Mystery?

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie has a median of 221 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 194 to 245 pages.

Median pages
221
21 editions counted
Range
158–299
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
61k
at 275 words per page
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How long will A Caribbean Mystery take you?

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Reading time
3 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

150200250300197019801990200020101964: 256 pages1964: 194 pages1964: 256 pages1964: 198 pages1965: 245 pages1965: 245 pages1966: 223 pages1967: 194 pages1972: 256 pages1973: 158 pages1978: 158 pages1979: 256 pages1981: 158 pages1984: 210 pages1989: 299 pages1992: 221 pages2001: 224 pages2002: 224 pages2003: 216 pages2011: 220 pagesmedian 221
150200250300198020001964: 256 pages1964: 194 pages1964: 256 pages1964: 198 pages1965: 245 pages1965: 245 pages1966: 223 pages1967: 194 pages1972: 256 pages1973: 158 pages1978: 158 pages1979: 256 pages1981: 158 pages1984: 210 pages1989: 299 pages1992: 221 pages2001: 224 pages2002: 224 pages2003: 216 pages2011: 220 pagesmedian 221
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 21 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 107 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011William Morrow–220OL27184221M
2003Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding216OL10952548M
2002HarperCollins Publishers–224OL7255922M
2001Signet–224OL7574236M
1992Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers–221OL18498173M
1989G.K. Hall–299OL2189242M
1984Sijthoff–210OL51010560M
1981Fontana/CollinsPaperback158OL28250996M

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Questions

How many pages is A Caribbean Mystery?
About 221 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 158 to 299 pages.
How long does it take to read A Caribbean Mystery?
About 3 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is A Caribbean Mystery?
Roughly 61,000 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).