Three Sevens

words removed
66,326
marks left
15,902
words a sentence
12.4
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: Ann Veronica, H. G. Wells. More twins

Perley Poore Sheehan on the shelf

It's the only book by Perley Poore Sheehan on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Perley Poore Sheehan's punctuation is closest to Leslie Charteris's.

Leslie Charteris'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
Semicolons1.57.2
Commas62.976.6
Colons1.41.6
Exclamation marks6.22.8
Question marks5.63.7
Words per sentence12.417.0
Dialogue18%22%

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

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