# The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer has 73,405 words.

## At a glance

Book by Sax Rohmer.

- **Author:** [Sax Rohmer](https://musael.com/books/authors/sax-rohmer.md) (1883–1959)
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 73,405
- **Reading time:** 4 h 54 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 54 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 7 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 54 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 5 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sax-rohmer/the-insidious-dr-fu-manchu
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/173

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 72,742
- Chapters: 30
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sax-rohmer/the-insidious-dr-fu-manchu (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/173 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19090776
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2288684W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/173

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-insidious-dr-fu-manchu