# The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie has 75,651 words.

## At a glance

1922 novel by Agatha Christie.

- **Author:** [Agatha Christie](https://musael.com/books/authors/agatha-christie.md) (1890–1976)
- **First published:** 1922
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 75,651
- **Reading time:** 5 h 3 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 8 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 18 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 3 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 12 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

The Secret Adversary is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-secret-adversary
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1155

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 75,400
- Chapters: 29
- Dialogue: 56% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 8.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-secret-adversary (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1155 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q617379
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Adversary
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL471789W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1155

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-secret-adversary