# The Green Mummy

The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume has 87,931 words.

## At a glance

1908 work (novel) by Fergus Hume.

- **Author:** [Fergus Hume](https://musael.com/books/authors/fergus-hume.md) (1859–1932)
- **First published:** 1908
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 87,931
- **Reading time:** 5 h 52 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 27 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 20 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 52 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 53 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2868

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 87,931
- Chapters: 27
- Dialogue: 52% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2868 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135803255
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1798906W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2868

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-green-mummy