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How many pages is The Seven Dials Mystery?

The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie has a median of 237 pages across 27 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 192 to 286 pages.

Median pages
237
27 editions counted
Range
172–450
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
65k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 11 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.

200300400192519501975200020251920: 276 pages1929: 210 pages1929: 310 pages1929: 192 pages1929: 317 pages1950: 247 pages1954: 190 pages1967: 192 pages1971: 184 pages1971: 194 pages1971: 184 pages1973: 184 pages1981: 172 pages1981: 208 pages1981: 217 pages1982: 222 pages1984: 387 pages1986: 282 pages1991: 272 pages2001: 270 pages2012: 284 pages2013: 335 pages2024: 320 pages2024: 192 pages2025: 288 pages2025: 450 pagesmedian 237
200300400195020001920: 276 pages1929: 210 pages1929: 310 pages1929: 192 pages1929: 317 pages1950: 247 pages1954: 190 pages1967: 192 pages1971: 184 pages1971: 194 pages1971: 184 pages1973: 184 pages1981: 172 pages1981: 208 pages1981: 217 pages1982: 222 pages1984: 387 pages1986: 282 pages1991: 272 pages2001: 270 pages2012: 284 pages2013: 335 pages2024: 320 pages2024: 192 pages2025: 288 pages2025: 450 pagesmedian 237
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 27 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 91 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group–288OL57569360M
2025MysteriousPress.com–450OL57605228M
2024HarperCollins Publishers–320OL53324808M
2024Blurb–192OL57620104M
2013Center Point Large Print–335OL30661269M
2012––284OL26968348M
2001St. Martin's Paperbacks–270OL3666509M
1991HarperPaperbacks–272OL7286306M

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Questions

How many pages is The Seven Dials Mystery?
About 237 pages: that is the median of 27 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 172 to 450 pages.
How long does it take to read The Seven Dials Mystery?
About 4 h 11 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 Seven Dials Mystery?
Roughly 65,000 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)).