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How many pages is Murder in Mesopotamia?

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie has a median of 228 pages across 24 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 217 to 290 pages.

Median pages
228
24 editions counted
Range
190–368
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
63k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 01 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.

20030019401960198020001936: 298 pages1936: 298 pages1936: 284 pages1936: 248 pages1936: 194 pages1955: 220 pages1962: 190 pages1964: 223 pages1969: 367 pages1973: 190 pages1979: 223 pages1981: 190 pages1984: 228 pages1984: 228 pages1991: 368 pages1994: 217 pages1998: 217 pages1998: 217 pages2001: 352 pages2003: 272 pages2006: 294 pages2007: 288 pages2011: 264 pagesmedian 228
2003001950197520001936: 298 pages1936: 298 pages1936: 284 pages1936: 248 pages1936: 194 pages1955: 220 pages1962: 190 pages1964: 223 pages1969: 367 pages1973: 190 pages1979: 223 pages1981: 190 pages1984: 228 pages1984: 228 pages1991: 368 pages1994: 217 pages1998: 217 pages1998: 217 pages2001: 352 pages2003: 272 pages2006: 294 pages2007: 288 pages2011: 264 pagesmedian 228
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 24 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 108 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Harper Paperbacks–264OL26050001M
2007Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersHardcover288OL8756690M
2006Collins–294OL50983721M
2003Berkley–272OL7502821M
2001Harper–352OL7261381M
1998Foreign Languages Press–217OL37788129M
1998HarperCollins–217OL18384020M
1994HarperCollins–217OL22579948M

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Questions

How many pages is Murder in Mesopotamia?
About 228 pages: that is the median of 24 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 190 to 368 pages.
How long does it take to read Murder in Mesopotamia?
About 4 h 01 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Murder in Mesopotamia?
Roughly 63,000 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)).