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Book · by Patricia Cornwell · first published 1996

How many pages is Cause of Death?

Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell has a median of 368 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 352 to 384 pages.

Median pages
368
9 editions counted
Range
340–516
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
101k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Cause of Death take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
6 h 29 min
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400500199720002002200520071996: 407 pages1996: 340 pages1996: 342 pages1996: 516 pages1997: 356 pages1997: 370 pages2007: 368 pages2008: 384 pagesmedian 368
400500200020051996: 407 pages1996: 340 pages1996: 342 pages1996: 516 pages1997: 356 pages1997: 370 pages2007: 368 pages2008: 384 pagesmedian 368
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 60 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited–384OL33414518M
2007Berkley–368OL7505649M
1997Berkley Books–356OL24951308M
1997Warner Books–370OL32782628M
1996G.K. Hall–407OL975106M
1996Putnam–340OL803814M
1996BCA–342OL16238205M
1996Putnam–516OL20942474M

Questions

How many pages is Cause of Death?
About 368 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 340 to 516 pages.
How long does it take to read Cause of Death?
About 6 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Cause of Death?
Roughly 101,000 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).