The Mystery of the Yellow Room

words removed
74,804
marks left
15,684
words a sentence
15.4
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: A Pair of Blue Eyes, Thomas Hardy. More twins

Gaston Leroux on the shelf

4 books by Gaston Leroux are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Henry James. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Gaston Leroux's punctuation is closest to William Stearns Davis's.

Gaston Leroux's average fingerprint

Gaston Leroux on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGaston Leroux's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.63.67.2
Commas66.968.776.6
Colons2.53.01.6
Exclamation marks6.68.72.8
Question marks7.37.13.7
Words per sentence15.414.417.0
Dialogue59%48%22%

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

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