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How many pages is Evil Under the Sun?

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie has a median of 224 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 200 to 260 pages.

Median pages
224
25 editions counted
Range
128–320
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
62k
at 275 words per page

How long will Evil Under the Sun take you?

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Reading time
3 h 57 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.

10020030019601980200020201941: 183 pages1941: 260 pages1957: 192 pages1963: 226 pages1963: 226 pages1969: 223 pages1969: 223 pages1970: 178 pages1977: 189 pages1981: 260 pages1982: 189 pages1984: 219 pages1985: 231 pages1988: 304 pages1989: 304 pages1991: 200 pages1999: 224 pages2001: 320 pages2001: 320 pages2004: 208 pages2006: 224 pages2014: 288 pages2019: 288 pages2020: 128 pagesmedian 224
100200300195020001941: 183 pages1941: 260 pages1957: 192 pages1963: 226 pages1963: 226 pages1969: 223 pages1969: 223 pages1970: 178 pages1977: 189 pages1981: 260 pages1982: 189 pages1984: 219 pages1985: 231 pages1988: 304 pages1989: 304 pages1991: 200 pages1999: 224 pages2001: 320 pages2001: 320 pages2004: 208 pages2006: 224 pages2014: 288 pages2019: 288 pages2020: 128 pagesmedian 224
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 120 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020HarperCollins Publishers Limited–128OL29480772M
2019HarperCollins Publishers Limited–288OL28730452M
2014HarperCollins Publishers–288OL28508564M
2006Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersHardcover224OL8756678M
2004Berkley–208OL7503341M
2001Harper–320OL7261544M
2001Harper–320OL28419907M
1999Collins Crime–224OL7255931M

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Questions

How many pages is Evil Under the Sun?
About 224 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 128 to 320 pages.
How long does it take to read Evil Under the Sun?
About 3 h 57 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Evil Under the Sun?
Roughly 62,000 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)).