The Tomb of Ts'in

words removed
52,969
marks left
11,762
words a sentence
14.8
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 Magic Casket, R. Austin Freeman. More twins

Edgar Wallace on the shelf

11 books by Edgar Wallace are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 11 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Louis Tracy. 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
Semicolons3.42.87.2
Commas64.865.576.6
Colons0.91.11.6
Exclamation marks2.84.02.8
Question marks4.19.03.7
Words per sentence14.812.817.0
Dialogue33%41%22%

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

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