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How many pages is Ordeal by Innocence?

Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie has a median of 254 pages across 27 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 211 to 288 pages.

Median pages
254
27 editions counted
Range
126–374
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
70k
at 275 words per page

How long will Ordeal by Innocence take you?

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Reading time
4 h 29 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.

1002003004001960198020001958: 373 pages1958: 192 pages1958: 256 pages1959: 262 pages1959: 247 pages1960: 198 pages1960: 254 pages1962: 262 pages1968: 211 pages1972: 211 pages1977: 192 pages1981: 192 pages1984: 218 pages1985: 280 pages1985: 254 pages1989: 374 pages1991: 274 pages1996: 218 pages2002: 288 pages2003: 320 pages2012: 319 pages2015: 126 pages2015: 126 pages2017: 288 pages2018: 288 pages2018: 349 pagesmedian 254
1002003004001960198020001958: 373 pages1958: 192 pages1958: 256 pages1959: 262 pages1959: 247 pages1960: 198 pages1960: 254 pages1962: 262 pages1968: 211 pages1972: 211 pages1977: 192 pages1981: 192 pages1984: 218 pages1985: 280 pages1985: 254 pages1989: 374 pages1991: 274 pages1996: 218 pages2002: 288 pages2003: 320 pages2012: 319 pages2015: 126 pages2015: 126 pages2017: 288 pages2018: 288 pages2018: 349 pagesmedian 254
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover25224 h 26 min
Paperback24024 h 14 min

Editions counted

The 27 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 104 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018William Morrowpaperback288OL32250623M
2018HarperLuxe–349OL26974755M
2017HarperCollins Publishers Limited–288OL28617753M
2015CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–126OL55551864M
2015CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–126OL56413654M
2012Center Point Publishing–319OL25157109M
2003Harper–320OL7262608M
2002St. Martin's PaperbacksMass Market Paperback288OL9453427M

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Questions

How many pages is Ordeal by Innocence?
About 254 pages: that is the median of 27 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 126 to 374 pages.
How long does it take to read Ordeal by Innocence?
About 4 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Ordeal by Innocence?
Roughly 70,000 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)).