Kate Plus 10

words removed
51,415
marks left
12,491
words a sentence
13.7
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 Red Seal, Natalie Sumner Lincoln. More twins

Edgar Wallace on the shelf

11 books by Edgar Wallace are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 10th closest of the 11 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Edgar Wallace as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edgar Wallace's punctuation is closest to Agatha Christie's.

Edgar Wallace's average fingerprint

Edgar Wallace on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEdgar Wallace's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.62.87.2
Commas62.265.576.6
Colons0.51.11.6
Exclamation marks2.64.02.8
Question marks9.09.03.7
Words per sentence13.712.817.0
Dialogue47%41%22%

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

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