The Dangerous Game

words removed
72,551
marks left
17,792
words a sentence
14.0
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 Sign of the Seven Sins, William Le Queux. More twins

William Le Queux on the shelf

2 books by William Le Queux are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Le Queux's punctuation is closest to Louis Tracy's.

William Le Queux's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam Le Queux's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.31.37.2
Commas86.880.976.6
Colons1.71.21.6
Exclamation marks5.34.92.8
Question marks6.06.43.7
Words per sentence14.014.717.0
Dialogue35%35%22%

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

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