Book · by Arthur Conan Doyle · first published 2005
How many pages is The Return of Sherlock Holmes?
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle has a median of 367 pages across 117 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 316 to 389 pages.
Median pages
367
117 editions counted
Range
181–600
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
101k
at 275 words per page
How long will The Return of Sherlock Holmes take you?
Reading time
6 h 28 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 344 | 26 | 6 h 04 min |
| Paperback | 331 | 34 | 5 h 50 min |
| Mass market | 320 | 4 | 5 h 38 min |
Editions counted
The 117 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 545 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | HarperCollins Focus | – | 416 | OL34164227M |
| 2022 | HarperCollins Focus | – | 416 | OL34124465M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL34314865M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL34307615M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 432 | OL34281768M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL34201885M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 317 | OL34284956M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 314 | OL34250196M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 432 | OL34287124M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 326 | OL34196451M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL34302214M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL34239279M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 301 | OL34286738M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 194 | OL30232924M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 192 | OL30224409M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL34295388M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL30338965M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 387 | OL30054708M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 367 | OL30066718M |
| 2020 | Bibliotech Press | hardcover | 256 | OL40280138M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 367 | OL29956155M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 391 | OL30070742M |
| 2020 | Bloomsbury Publishing USA | – | 352 | OL30193620M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL30336606M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL30333679M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL30357999M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 359 | OL34297503M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 192 | OL30229511M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL30322455M |
| 2020 | Flame Tree Publishing | – | 416 | OL28062163M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL29847306M |
| 2019 | Arcturus | Paperback | 336 | OL43203733M |
| 2019 | SeaWolf Press | Paperback | 300 | OL46914352M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 389 | OL29907419M |
| 2018 | Arcturus Publishing | – | 336 | OL28892170M |
| 2018 | [not identified] | paperback | 294 | OL36331730M |
| 2015 | Joe Books Inc. | – | 208 | OL34030817M |
| 2014 | MysteriousPress.com | – | 381 | OL33495078M |
| 2014 | BBC Books | paperback | 372 | OL28517122M |
| 2013 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 384 | OL34499956M |
| 2013 | Harper Press | paperback | 370 | OL28512843M |
| 2011 | Wilder Publications | paperback | 262 | OL35336698M |
| 2011 | Penguin Books | paperback | 394 | OL36331483M |
| 2011 | Ulverscroft | paperback | 547 | OL33027542M |
| 2008 | House of Stratus, Incorporated | – | 376 | OL28837337M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books | paperback | 394 | OL28447250M |
| 2007 | Echo Library | Paperback | 600 | OL8411672M |
| 2007 | Dodo Press | Paperback | 316 | OL11678192M |
| 2007 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | 392 | OL11973968M |
| 2007 | Wildside Press | Paperback | 392 | OL11973967M |
| 2007 | Headline Book Publishing | Paperback | 375 | OL7993388M |
| 2006 | Book Sales | Hardcover | 352 | OL9093595M |
| 2006 | BiblioBazaar | Paperback | 290 | OL8536770M |
| 2006 | IndyPublish.com | Hardcover | 300 | OL8492438M |
| 2006 | BiblioBazaar | Paperback | 326 | OL8536773M |
| 2006 | 1st World Library | Hardcover | 436 | OL8491438M |
| 2006 | Hard Press | Paperback | 256 | OL11685232M |
| 2006 | Hard Press | Paperback | 264 | OL8411786M |
| 2005 | Echo Library | Paperback | 516 | OL9710338M |
| 2005 | Quiet Vision Pub | Paperback | 221 | OL12238932M |
| 2004 | Fredonia Books (NL) | Paperback | 568 | OL8422987M |
| 2004 | 1st World Library | Paperback | 436 | OL8881850M |
| 2004 | Wildside Press | Paperback | 312 | OL7978808M |
| 2004 | IndyPublish.com | Paperback | 300 | OL11728644M |
| 2004 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | 312 | OL7978852M |
| 2004 | BookSurge Classics | Paperback | 428 | OL12435536M |
| 2003 | Oxford University Press | Paperback | 347 | OL8416955M |
| 2002 | IndyPublish.com | Hardcover | 300 | OL11645491M |
| 2002 | IndyPublish.com | Paperback | 300 | OL8402876M |
| 2001 | House of Stratus | Paperback | 378 | OL7992503M |
| 1997 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | Paperback | 336 | OL8978436M |
| 1997 | LRS | Library Binding | 528 | OL12279981M |
| 1996 | Leopard | Hardcover | 344 | OL26343107M |
| 1996 | Platinum Press | Hardcover | 193 | OL39468489M |
| 1995 | Readers Digest Association Limited | Hardcover | 318 | OL43196530M |
| 1995 | Reader's Digest Association Limited | hardcover | 318 | OL36330030M |
| 1995 | Wordsworth | – | 320 | OL21951579M |
| 1995 | Reader's Digest Association Limited | Hardcover | 318 | OL43473410M |
| 1994 | Book-of-the-Month Club | hardcover | 381 | OL36247731M |
| 1994 | Oxford University Press | – | 408 | OL1082840M |
| 1993 | Wordsworth Classics | – | 309 | OL22363493M |
| 1993 | Oxford University Press | – | 408 | OL22282382M |
| 1991 | Reader's Digest Association | hardcover | 318 | OL23244717M |
| 1988 | Grafton | – | 368 | OL21563303M |
| 1987 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 181 | OL2728760M |
| 1987 | Michael O'Mara | – | 304 | OL22453140M |
| 1987 | Mysterious Press | hardcover | 304 | OL20931138M |
| 1985 | Berkley Books | mass market paperback | 320 | OL7502180M |
| 1983 | Berkley | – | 320 | OL7501936M |
| 1981 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 323 | OL9301370M |
| 1980 | Longman | – | 371 | OL22788291M |
| 1976 | Pan Books | mass market paperback | 350 | OL22832721M |
| 1975 | Shocken Books | – | 193 | OL5200691M |
| 1975 | Book Club Associates | Hardcover | 344 | OL47070600M |
| 1975 | Schocken Books | paperback | 193 | OL27099289M |
| 1975 | Ballantine Books, a div. of Random House, Inc./ Simulaneousl | Paperback | 309 | OL22299293M |
| 1974 | J. Murray : Cape | hardcover | 344 | OL5236206M |
| 1967 | Ulverscroft | hardcover | 446 | OL32380254M |
| 1967 | Ulverscroft | – | 445 | OL22962490M |
| 1966 | Berkley Publishing Corporation | mass market paperback | 320 | OL36008215M |
| 1966 | Berkley Publishing Corporation | mass market paperback | 320 | OL7500523M |
| 1964 | Robert Laffont | Paperback | 424 | OL47068112M |
| 1964 | John Murray | Paperback | 316 | OL43318352M |
| 1958 | John Murray | hardcover | 329 | OL36240939M |
| 1937 | The Sun Dial Press, inc. | – | 381 | OL6350225M |
| 1930 | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. | – | 341 | OL22289203M |
| 1915 | Doubleday, Page | – | 381 | OL6588023M |
| 1907 | A. Wessels | – | 381 | OL7138645M |
| 1905 | P. F. Collier | Hardcover | 341 | OL24197209M |
| 1905 | The Sun Dial Press | – | 381 | OL17639886M |
| 1905 | P. F. Collier & Son | hardcover | 381 | OL36332646M |
| 1905 | McClure, Phillips & co. | Hardcover | 381 | OL7173235M |
| 1905 | Doubleday, Page, & Co. | – | 379 | OL26661169M |
| 1905 | W. R. Caldwell | – | 381 | OL26661485M |
| 1905 | McClure, Phillips & co. | Hardcover | 381 | OL6952424M |
| 1905 | P.F. Collier & Son | Hardcover | 381 | OL47072831M |
| 1905 | P.F. Collier & Son | Hardcover | 381 | OL47072712M |
More by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 312 pagesThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
- 1,122 pagesThe Complete Sherlock Holmes
- 162 pagesA Study in Scarlet
- 209 pagesThe Hound of the Baskervilles
- 259 pagesMemoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Questions
- How many pages is The Return of Sherlock Holmes?
- About 367 pages: that is the median of 117 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 181 to 600 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Return of Sherlock Holmes?
- About 6 h 28 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is The Return of Sherlock Holmes?
- Roughly 101,000 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)).