The Valley of Fear

words removed
58,197
marks left
13,009
words a sentence
12.9
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: The Missing Will, Agatha Christie. More twins

Arthur Conan Doyle on the shelf

12 books by Arthur Conan Doyle are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 10th closest of the 12 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Edgar Wallace. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Arthur Conan Doyle's punctuation is closest to Louis Tracy's.

Arthur Conan Doyle's average fingerprint

Arthur Conan Doyle on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookArthur Conan Doyle's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.41.77.2
Commas59.868.276.6
Colons0.40.51.6
Exclamation marks5.53.32.8
Question marks8.66.73.7
Words per sentence12.914.517.0
Dialogue60%62%22%

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

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