Dr. Mabuse, Master of Mystery

words removed
81,689
marks left
16,606
words a sentence
14.4
most used mark
,

Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. More twins

Norbert Jacques on the shelf

It's the only book by Norbert Jacques on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Norbert Jacques's punctuation is closest to Gaston Leroux's.

Gaston Leroux's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons2.67.2
Commas67.176.6
Colons1.11.6
Exclamation marks6.32.8
Question marks7.93.7
Words per sentence14.417.0
Dialogue32%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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