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How many pages is Sleeping Murder?

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie has a median of 242 pages across 24 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 224 to 303 pages.

Median pages
242
24 editions counted
Range
183–344
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
67k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
4 h 16 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.

20030019801990200020101976: 308 pages1976: 230 pages1976: 296 pages1976: 224 pages1976: 242 pages1976: 224 pages1976: 242 pages1977: 205 pages1977: 296 pages1978: 344 pages1978: 192 pages1980: 183 pages1981: 296 pages1985: 185 pages1989: 344 pages1990: 327 pages1992: 224 pages2000: 224 pages2002: 304 pages2002: 303 pages2003: 224 pages2010: 304 pages2014: 287 pagesmedian 242
200300198020001976: 308 pages1976: 230 pages1976: 296 pages1976: 224 pages1976: 242 pages1976: 224 pages1976: 242 pages1977: 205 pages1977: 296 pages1978: 344 pages1978: 192 pages1980: 183 pages1981: 296 pages1985: 185 pages1989: 344 pages1990: 327 pages1992: 224 pages2000: 224 pages2002: 304 pages2002: 303 pages2003: 224 pages2010: 304 pages2014: 287 pagesmedian 242
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
Hardcover23344 h 06 min
Mass market26024 h 35 min

Editions counted

The 24 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 118 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2014Center Point Large Print–287OL31025672M
2010Ulverscroft–304OL38241608M
2003Collins CrimeHardcover224OL9210678M
2002Harper–304OL7261630M
2002Ted Smart–303OL16349152M
2000Signet–224OL7574244M
1992HarperCollins PublishersMass Market Paperback224OL9241057M
1990G.K. Hall–327OL2205160M

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Questions

How many pages is Sleeping Murder?
About 242 pages: that is the median of 24 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 183 to 344 pages.
How long does it take to read Sleeping Murder?
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 Sleeping Murder?
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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).