# The Secret of Chimneys

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie has 74,869 words.

## At a glance

1925 novel by Agatha Christie.

- **Author:** [Agatha Christie](https://musael.com/books/authors/agatha-christie.md) (1890–1976)
- **First published:** 1925
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 74,869
- **Reading time:** 4 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 3 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 14 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 59 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 10 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-secret-of-chimneys
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65238

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 75,122
- Dialogue: 63% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 9.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-secret-of-chimneys (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65238 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174654
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Chimneys
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL472542W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65238

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-secret-of-chimneys