# The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne has 60,624 words.

## At a glance

Novel by A. A. Milne.

- **Author:** [A. A. Milne](https://musael.com/books/authors/a-a-milne.md) (1882–1956)
- **First published:** 1922
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 60,624
- **Reading time:** 4 h 2 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 31 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 3 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 2 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 22 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Red House Mystery is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/a-a-milne/the-red-house-mystery
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1872

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 60,807
- Chapters: 22
- Dialogue: 55% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 10.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/a-a-milne/the-red-house-mystery (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1872 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7759881
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_House_Mystery
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL476846W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1872

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-red-house-mystery