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The Amateur Cracksman

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung (1866–1921)

Project Gutenberg #706 · EN · 51,976 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: cool, urbane, gentlemanly wit with shadowed thrill
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
53,713
Sentences
3,679
Mean sentence length
14.6 words (std 11.7, p50 11, p90 31)
MTLD (vocab richness)
93.4
Type-token ratio
0.108
Commas / 1k
64.0
Periods / 1k
50.3
Semicolons / 1k
12.5
Colons / 1k
0.6
Question marks / 1k
8.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
9.4
Em-dashes / 1k
5.4
Parentheses / 1k
0.8

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