# Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers has 59,554 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Dorothy Sayers.

- **Author:** [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://musael.com/books/authors/dorothy-l-sayers.md) (1893–1957)
- **First published:** 1923
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** mystery
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 59,554
- **Reading time:** 3 h 58 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 24 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 58 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 58 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 19 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58820

## 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: 13
- Dialogue: 62% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58820 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1197575
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Body%3F
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58820

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/whose-body-a-lord-peter-wimsey-novel