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At a glance
Novel by Dorothy Sayers.
How long it takes to read
About 3 h 58 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 24 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 4 h 58 min | 10 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 3 h 58 min | 8 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 3 h 19 min | 7 days |
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel
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Counted from the text
Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.
- Words in the text
- 59,554
- Chapters
- 13about 4,581 words each
- Dialogue
- 62%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 12.7 words
- Vocabulary
- 433 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below.
- gutenberg.orgword count
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Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel?
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers has 59,554 words.
How long does it take to read Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel?
About 3 h 58 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 24 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel at 30 minutes a day?
About 8 days at an average reading speed.
Who wrote Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel?
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel was written by Dorothy L. Sayers and first published in 1923.
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