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How many pages is A Murder Is Announced?

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie has a median of 240 pages across 29 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 221 to 297 pages.

Median pages
240
29 editions counted
Range
128–448
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
66k
at 275 words per page
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How long will A Murder Is Announced take you?

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Reading time
4 h 14 min
At 30 min a day
9 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.

20040019601980200020201950: 248 pages1950: 213 pages1950: 262 pages1951: 226 pages1953: 221 pages1953: 221 pages1953: 226 pages1965: 428 pages1970: 210 pages1980: 221 pages1984: 237 pages1985: 297 pages1985: 275 pages1985: 297 pages1985: 221 pages1985: 288 pages1988: 404 pages1989: 404 pages1990: 237 pages1993: 237 pages2001: 240 pages2005: 384 pages2005: 262 pages2006: 288 pages2011: 359 pages2019: 448 pages2020: 128 pagesmedian 240
2004001950197520001950: 248 pages1950: 213 pages1950: 262 pages1951: 226 pages1953: 221 pages1953: 221 pages1953: 226 pages1965: 428 pages1970: 210 pages1980: 221 pages1984: 237 pages1985: 297 pages1985: 275 pages1985: 297 pages1985: 221 pages1985: 288 pages1988: 404 pages1989: 404 pages1990: 237 pages1993: 237 pages2001: 240 pages2005: 384 pages2005: 262 pages2006: 288 pages2011: 359 pages2019: 448 pages2020: 128 pagesmedian 240
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 2 editions without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 29 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 127 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020HarperCollins Publishers Limited–128OL29480782M
2019HarperCollins Publishers–448OL28932925M
2011Center Point Pub.–359OL25177038M
2006Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersHardcover288OL8756679M
2005HarperCollins Publishers–384OL7263628M
2005The crime club–262OL58619560M
2001Signet–240OL7574279M
1993HarperCollins–237OL19832747M

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Questions

How many pages is A Murder Is Announced?
About 240 pages: that is the median of 29 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 128 to 448 pages.
How long does it take to read A Murder Is Announced?
About 4 h 14 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is A Murder Is Announced?
Roughly 66,000 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).