Murder in the Gilded Cage

words removed
53,224
marks left
15,523
words a sentence
8.6
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: The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie. More twins

Samuel Spewack on the shelf

It's the only book by Samuel Spewack on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Samuel Spewack's punctuation is closest to Agatha Christie's.

Agatha Christie'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
Semicolons0.37.2
Commas54.776.6
Colons2.41.6
Exclamation marks7.82.8
Question marks10.33.7
Words per sentence8.617.0
Dialogue56%22%

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

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