43,295words
- Pages
- 146paperback, Vintage Books, 2009
- Reading time
- 2 h 53 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 4 h 39 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1887
Book 1 of 4 in Sherlock Holmes
Compared with other books
Longer than 10% of the other 366 books here.
Counted from the text
Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.
- Words in the text
- 43,533
- Chapters
- 14about 3,110 words each
- Dialogue
- 50%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 15.5 words
- Vocabulary
- 440 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 43,295 to 43,367 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- openlibrary.orgpages of this edition · ISBN 9780099530534
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is A Study in Scarlet?
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle has 43,295 words.
How many pages is A Study in Scarlet?
146 pages in the paperback, Vintage Books, 2009 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read A Study in Scarlet?
About 2 h 53 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 39 min as an audiobook.
Writing a book of your own?
Musael counts every chapter as you write, keeps the plan beside the draft and checks names and facts across the book.