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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · 104,539 words
4:36:24
at 420 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about eleven and a half hours.

Twelve cases for Sherlock Holmes, and they are twelve separate short stories — nothing carries over, eighteen to twenty-five minutes each, and you can read one and stop. A king is threatened with a photograph. A pawnbroker is paid four pounds a week to copy the encyclopaedia out by hand. A woman's sister walks out of a bedroom locked and shuttered from the inside and dies in the corridor. At Baker Street, Holmes reads a shiny cuff or seven splashes of mud on a sleeve before the client has finished sitting down; Watson writes it up afterwards, once fetched from his own breakfast table by telegram. The shape repeats — a stranger talks, Holmes names the answer, the reasoning arrives last. Read straight through, you will feel the joins.

12 chapters · begin at the beginning
IA Scandal in Bohemia22:57begin ▸
·IIThe Red-Headed League24:05sealed
·IIIA Case of Identity18:27sealed
·IVThe Boscombe Valley Mystery25:23sealed
·VThe Five Orange Pips19:24sealed
·VIThe Man with the Twisted Lip24:20sealed
·VIIThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle20:56sealed
·VIIIThe Adventure of the Speckled Band25:52sealed
·IXThe Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb21:47sealed
·XThe Adventure of the Noble Bachelor21:34sealed
·XIThe Adventure of the Beryl Coronet25:29sealed
·XIIThe Adventure of the Copper Beeches26:11sealed

How long does it take to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is 104,539 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 5 hr 48 min, or roughly 4 hr 21 min if you read quickly and 8 hr 43 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (1892), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence