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How many pages is The Murder at the Vicarage?

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie has a median of 255 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 223 to 294 pages.

Median pages
255
25 editions counted
Range
122–397
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
70k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Murder at the Vicarage take you?

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Reading time
4 h 30 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.

100200300400194019601980200020201930: 319 pages1930: 240 pages1930: 221 pages1948: 255 pages1961: 221 pages1970: 223 pages1971: 189 pages1977: 251 pages1980: 397 pages1982: 176 pages1984: 230 pages1986: 294 pages1989: 395 pages1990: 395 pages1997: 221 pages1999: 231 pages2000: 256 pages2000: 247 pages2005: 256 pages2006: 288 pages2011: 285 pages2011: 334 pages2017: 292 pages2017: 122 pages2025: 304 pagesmedian 255
100200300400195020001930: 319 pages1930: 240 pages1930: 221 pages1948: 255 pages1961: 221 pages1970: 223 pages1971: 189 pages1977: 251 pages1980: 397 pages1982: 176 pages1984: 230 pages1986: 294 pages1989: 395 pages1990: 395 pages1997: 221 pages1999: 231 pages2000: 256 pages2000: 247 pages2005: 256 pages2006: 288 pages2011: 285 pages2011: 334 pages2017: 292 pages2017: 122 pages2025: 304 pagesmedian 255
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 127 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025HarperCollins Publishers–304OL57602542M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–292OL56291846M
2017HarperCollins Publishers Limited–122OL34547783M
2011Harper–285OL39205968M
2011Center Point Pub.–334OL25162010M
2006Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersHardcover288OL8756675M
2005Collins–256OL7264190M
2000SignetPaperback256OL7574276M

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Questions

How many pages is The Murder at the Vicarage?
About 255 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 122 to 397 pages.
How long does it take to read The Murder at the Vicarage?
About 4 h 30 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is The Murder at the Vicarage?
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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).