The Trail of Deception

words removed
23,965
marks left
7,789
words a sentence
9.9
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: Law-star for an Outlaw, W. C. Tuttle. More twins

W. C. Tuttle on the shelf

6 books by W. C. Tuttle are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names W. C. Tuttle as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, W. C. Tuttle's punctuation is closest to Harper Williams's.

W. C. Tuttle's average fingerprint

W. C. Tuttle on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookW. C. Tuttle's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons0.92.17.2
Commas74.578.676.6
Colons1.71.21.6
Exclamation marks4.54.02.8
Question marks11.211.03.7
Words per sentence9.910.217.0
Dialogue45%48%22%

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

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