
How long does it take to read Murder on the Orient Express?
by Agatha Christie
5h 54m
88,550 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 12 days.
That is 12 sessions with Murder on the Orient Express.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
This estimate uses a representative 322-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Murder on the Orient Express?
Murder on the Orient Express is about 88,550 words, estimated from its 322 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 54 minutes.
We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.
How many pages is Murder on the Orient Express?
- Catalog page count
- 322
- Edition ISBN
- 9780425200452
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Series
- Hercule Poirot, book 10
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.
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