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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries books in order

The 8 books of Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 3 books with page data add up to about 1,029 pages.

Books in order
8
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,029
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
18h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Whose Body?
    1988 · 47 editions
    218 pages
    3 h 51 min
  2. 2
    Clouds of Witness
    1926 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  3. 3
    Unnatural Death
    1927 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
    1928 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 5
    Strong Poison
    1930 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  6. 9
    The Nine Tailors
    1959 · 25 editions
    331 pages
    5 h 50 min
  7. 10
    Gaudy Night
    1993 · 19 editions
    480 pages
    8 h 28 min
  8. 11
    Busman's Honeymoon
    1937 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Whose Body?2189. The Nine Tailors33110. Gaudy Night480
1. Whose Body?2189. The Nine Tailors33110. Gaudy Night480
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,029 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
18 h 08 min
At 30 min a day
37 days
At 1 hour a day
19 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); 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)).