The Girl from Scotland Yard

words removed
62,801
marks left
15,371
words a sentence
12.1
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 Black Abbot, Edgar Wallace. More twins

Edgar Wallace on the shelf

11 books by Edgar Wallace are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th 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
Semicolons5.12.87.2
Commas59.165.576.6
Colons1.61.11.6
Exclamation marks5.94.02.8
Question marks9.79.03.7
Words per sentence12.112.817.0
Dialogue42%41%22%

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

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