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Book · by Patricia Cornwell · first published 1990

How many pages is Postmortem?

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell has a median of 352 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 320 to 416 pages.

Median pages
352
17 editions counted
Range
242–571
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
97k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
6 h 12 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.

20040060019902000201020201990: 293 pages1990: 310 pages1990: 354 pages1990: 318 pages1991: 327 pages1991: 320 pages1992: 404 pages1993: 242 pages1994: 422 pages1994: 571 pages1998: 352 pages1998: 342 pages2000: 333 pages2003: 352 pages2007: 509 pages2008: 416 pages2021: 448 pagesmedian 352
200400600200020201990: 293 pages1990: 310 pages1990: 354 pages1990: 318 pages1991: 327 pages1991: 320 pages1992: 404 pages1993: 242 pages1994: 422 pages1994: 571 pages1998: 352 pages1998: 342 pages2000: 333 pages2003: 352 pages2007: 509 pages2008: 416 pages2021: 448 pagesmedian 352
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 82 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Pocket Books–448OL30009069M
2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited–416OL33397864M
2007Thorndike PressHardcover509OL8137921M
2003PocketMass Market Paperback352OL7951027M
2000ImPress Mystery–333OL6788112M
1998PocketMass Market Paperback352OL7644810M
1998Pocket Books–342OL23029650M
1994G.K. Hall–422OL1417546M

Questions

How many pages is Postmortem?
About 352 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 242 to 571 pages.
How long does it take to read Postmortem?
About 6 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
How many words is Postmortem?
Roughly 97,000 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).