Spotlight on stylometric text analysis - The Avon Novels
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The Story of the Phantom
The Story of the Phantom is a series of 15 novels, published by Avon Publications in the U.S. from 1972 to 1975, based on Lee Falk's Phantom stories. When released the adaptor of issues 2 and 10 was not credited, and issue 15 was credited as Carson Bingham. Lee Falk did correct this using an "Author's note" in the books.
| Adapted by | issues | note |
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| Lee Falk | 1, 6, 9, 12, 15 | #15 is wrongly credited as Carson Bingham |
| Basil Copper | 2, 3 | #2 The adaptor is not credited |
| Frank S. Shawn (pen name of Ron Goulart) | 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 | #10 The adaptor is not credited |
| Warren Shanahan | 13 | |
| Carson Bingham (pen name of Bruce Cassiday) | 14 |
Analysis
The Corpus
The 15 novels, from chapter 1 to the end of the novel.
Analysis using R
Using a Bootstrap consensus tree analysis for the 100 MFW to 1,000 MFW (with an incremental step size of 50 words), it branches for the authors according to Lee Falk's correction in the Author's note. The novels by Shanahan (13) and Bingham (14) branches close. But this is not uncommon if the corpus contains only one text by an author.
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