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The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)

Project Gutenberg #434 · EN · 69,915 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: cozy, suspenseful, wry, domestic gothic
  • 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
71,518
Sentences
4,921
Mean sentence length
14.5 words (std 9.7, p50 13, p90 27)
MTLD (vocab richness)
86.4
Type-token ratio
0.081
Commas / 1k
75.3
Periods / 1k
60.2
Semicolons / 1k
2.4
Colons / 1k
2.1
Question marks / 1k
5.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
2.6
Em-dashes / 1k
7.7
Parentheses / 1k
0.2

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