Who Wrote The Blonde Countess? A Stylometric Analysis of Herbert O. Yardley's Fiction

摘要

One of Herbert O. Yardley's many careers was as a writer of short stories and novels of international intrigue. It is widely accepted [12] that Yardley wrote at least some of his fiction in collaboration with Carl H. Grabo, a professor of English at the University of Chicago. What is not completely known is which of Yardley's novels are predominantly Grabo, and which might be predominantly Yardley. This article presents a stylometric analysis of Yardley's novels and gives evidence on the identity of the author(s) of each.