Arthur Conan Doyle

How many words is The Valley of Fear?

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle has 57,756 words.

57,756words

Pages
217paperback, Penguin Books, 2007
Reading time
3 h 51 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
6 h 13 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1915

Book 4 of 4 in Sherlock Holmes

  1. 1A Study in Scarlet43,295
  2. 2The Sign of the Four43,106
  3. 3The Hound of the Baskervilles57,689
  4. 4The Valley of Fear57,756

All of Sherlock Holmes: 201,846 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 19% of the other 366 books here.

Counted from the text

Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.

Words in the text
57,633
Chapters
14about 4,117 words each
Dialogue
60%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
12.9 words
Vocabulary
422 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

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

Questions

How many words is The Valley of Fear?

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle has 57,756 words.

How many pages is The Valley of Fear?

217 pages in the paperback, Penguin Books, 2007 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read The Valley of Fear?

About 3 h 51 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 13 min as an audiobook.

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