Book · by Agatha Christie
How many pages is Murder on the Orient Express?
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie has a median of 242 pages across 46 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 183 to 274 pages.
How long will Murder on the Orient Express take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 272 | 4 | 4 h 48 min |
| Mass market | 198 | 3 | 3 h 29 min |
Editions counted
The 46 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were 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 248 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 288 | OL57618401M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 170 | OL56123489M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 196 | OL55700695M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 140 | OL55135823M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 180 | OL56780812M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 166 | OL55872544M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 170 | OL56241667M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 180 | OL56842241M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 168 | OL54711945M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 130 | OL55261713M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 196 | OL55020267M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 140 | OL55589312M |
| 2017 | William Morrow | paperback | 288 | OL32221353M |
| 2017 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 288 | OL28635765M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 154 | OL55337995M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 140 | OL54682962M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 354 | OL55387407M |
| 2013 | – | – | 274 | OL28275548M |
| 2011 | Harper | Paperback | 315 | OL25884899M |
| 2011 | Harper | – | 267 | OL26463552M |
| 2010 | Ulverscroft | – | 372 | OL31927148M |
| 2007 | Harper | paperback | 240 | OL28119537M |
| 2006 | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers | Hardcover | 272 | OL8756673M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins | – | 244 | OL50983973M |
| 2004 | Berkley Books | – | 336 | OL7505076M |
| 2000 | Berkeley Press | – | 245 | OL3548297M |
| 2000 | Berkley | – | 245 | OL22732173M |
| 1999 | ImPress | – | 295 | OL42410M |
| 1998 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 233 | OL21325096M |
| 1991 | HarperPaperbacks | Mass Market Paperback | 256 | OL9241012M |
| 1985 | Dodd, Mead | – | 263 | OL2875362M |
| 1983 | Bantam Books | – | 212 | OL20870636M |
| 1975 | Pocket Books, Inc. | Mass Market Paperback | 198 | OL7665025M |
| 1974 | Fontana | – | 191 | OL22328169M |
| 1971 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 198 | OL24214614M |
| 1970 | Pocket Books | paperback | 256 | OL37874340M |
| 1970 | Fontana | – | 192 | OL20938095M |
| 1968 | Published for the Crime club by Collins | – | 254 | OL17891410M |
| 1964 | Collins | – | 192 | OL56219994M |
| 1940 | Simon & Shuster | – | 198 | OL21572321M |
| 1940 | Pocket Books, inc. | – | 246 | OL6415116M |
| 1935 | Pub. for the Crime Club, ltd., by Collins | – | 254 | OL6316704M |
| 1934 | Dodd, Mead | – | 302 | OL58791978M |
| 1934 | Lawrence E. Spivak | – | 126 | OL16646258M |
| 1933 | P.F. Collier & Son | – | 302 | OL14184360M |
| 1933 | Dodd, Mead & Co. | – | 302 | OL14565988M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Murder on the Orient Express?
- About 242 pages: that is the median of 46 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 126 to 372 pages.
- How long does it take to read Murder on the Orient Express?
- About 4 h 16 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 on the Orient Express?
- Roughly 67,000 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)).