# The Big Four

The Big Four by Agatha Christie has 55,818 words.

## At a glance

1927 novel by Agatha Christie.

- **Author:** [Agatha Christie](https://musael.com/books/authors/agatha-christie.md) (1890–1976)
- **First published:** 1927
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 55,818
- **Reading time:** 3 h 43 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 39 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 43 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 6 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Big Four is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-big-four
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70114

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 55,596
- Dialogue: 57% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 10.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-big-four (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70114 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734675
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Four_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL471947W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70114

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-big-four