The Problem of Cell 13

words removed
78,648
marks left
20,751
words a sentence
11.1
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 Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie. More twins

Jacques Futrelle on the shelf

It's the only book by Jacques Futrelle on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jacques Futrelle's punctuation is closest to Edgar Wallace's.

Edgar Wallace'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
Semicolons4.27.2
Commas67.476.6
Colons1.01.6
Exclamation marks1.32.8
Question marks11.43.7
Words per sentence11.117.0
Dialogue52%22%

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

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