# The Secret of Father Brown

The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton has 62,994 words.

## At a glance

Short story collection by G. K. Chesterton.

- **Author:** [G. K. Chesterton](https://musael.com/books/authors/g-k-chesterton.md) (1874–1936)
- **First published:** 1927
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 62,994
- **Reading time:** 4 h 12 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 46 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 15 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 12 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 30 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/the-secret-of-father-brown
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70175

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 63,024
- Dialogue: 57% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/the-secret-of-father-brown (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70175 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82463
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL76464W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70175

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

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