Arthur Conan Doyle

How many words is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle has 104,477 words.

104,477words

Pages
343paperback, Scholastic, 2017
Reading time
6 h 58 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
11 h 14 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1892

Book of 4 in Sherlock Holmes

  1. 1A Study in Scarlet43,295
  2. 2The Sign of the Four43,106
  3. 3The Hound of the Baskervilles57,689
  4. 4The Valley of Fear57,756

All of Sherlock Holmes: 201,846 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 51% 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
104,666
Dialogue
76%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
14.4 words
Vocabulary
421 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 104,477 to 104,582 words.

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

Questions

How many words is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle has 104,477 words.

How many pages is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

343 pages in the paperback, Scholastic, 2017 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

About 6 h 58 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 14 min as an audiobook.

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