Law-star for an Outlaw

words removed
15,065
marks left
5,169
words a sentence
9.5
most used mark
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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: Skeeter Bill Comes to Town, W. C. Tuttle. More twins

W. C. Tuttle on the shelf

6 books by W. C. Tuttle are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names W. C. Tuttle as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, W. C. Tuttle's punctuation is closest to Harper Williams's.

W. C. Tuttle's average fingerprint

W. C. Tuttle on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookW. C. Tuttle's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons0.22.17.2
Commas81.178.676.6
Colons1.91.21.6
Exclamation marks4.84.02.8
Question marks10.411.03.7
Words per sentence9.510.217.0
Dialogue50%48%22%

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

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