The Haunting Hand

words removed
59,356
marks left
14,666
words a sentence
13.5
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: Barry Locke, Half-back, Ralph Henry Barbour. More twins

Walter Adolphe Roberts on the shelf

It's the only book by Walter Adolphe Roberts on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Walter Adolphe Roberts's punctuation is closest to Ralph Henry Barbour's.

Ralph Henry Barbour'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
Semicolons0.87.2
Commas69.576.6
Colons2.11.6
Exclamation marks7.12.8
Question marks6.23.7
Words per sentence13.517.0
Dialogue47%22%

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

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