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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie (1890–1976)

Project Gutenberg #863 · EN · 56,535 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: crisp, clever, cool-headed, drawing-room intrigue
  • 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
57,931
Sentences
5,314
Mean sentence length
10.9 words (std 8.5, p50 9, p90 22)
MTLD (vocab richness)
94.6
Type-token ratio
0.090
Commas / 1k
73.9
Periods / 1k
70.3
Semicolons / 1k
1.3
Colons / 1k
2.3
Question marks / 1k
14.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
7.1
Em-dashes / 1k
10.5
Parentheses / 1k
0.2

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