# The Murder on the Links

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie has 64,890 words.

## At a glance

1923 novel by Agatha Christie.

- **Author:** [Agatha Christie](https://musael.com/books/authors/agatha-christie.md) (1890–1976)
- **First published:** 1923
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 64,890
- **Reading time:** 4 h 20 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 59 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 24 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 20 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 36 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

The Murder on the Links is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-murder-on-the-links
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58866

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 65,088
- Dialogue: 61% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 9.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-murder-on-the-links (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58866 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542293
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_on_the_Links
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL472073W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58866

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-murder-on-the-links