# The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie has 70,358 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Agatha Christie.

- **Author:** [Agatha Christie](https://musael.com/books/authors/agatha-christie.md) (1890–1976)
- **First published:** 1928
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 70,358
- **Reading time:** 4 h 41 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 34 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 52 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 41 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 55 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-mystery-of-the-blue-train
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72824

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 70,278
- Dialogue: 60% 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-mystery-of-the-blue-train (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72824 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q636815
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Blue_Train
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL471603W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72824

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-mystery-of-the-blue-train