# A Woman at Bay

A Woman at Bay by Nicholas Carter has 72,379 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Nicholas Carter](https://musael.com/books/authors/nicholas-carter.md)
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 72,379
- **Reading time:** 4 h 50 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 47 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 2 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 50 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 1 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

A Woman at Bay is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26704

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 72,379
- Chapters: 28
- Dialogue: 46% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26704 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL36070455W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26704

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-woman-at-bay