# The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens has 95,978 words.

## At a glance

Monthly serial; final and unfinished novel by Charles Dickens; published 1870.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1870
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 95,978
- **Reading time:** 6 h 24 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 19 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h | 16 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 24 min | 13 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 20 min | 11 days |

## Read or listen

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/564

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 96,181
- Chapters: 23
- Dialogue: 42% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/564 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168105
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8763148W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/564

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood