The Adventure of the Speckled Band and Other Stories of Sherl... by Arthur Conan Doyle

The sisters were in the habit of locking their doors and shuttering their windows-Roylott keeps a wild cheetah and baboon around the property as pets-so Julia’s death fully baffles Helen.īy the time she comes to visit Holmes and Watson, Helen herself has become engaged. Julia said, “It was the band! The speckled band!” and died. Helen ran over to see what happened and Julia, in a state of shock, fell to the ground in convulsions. This went on for some time, until, shortly before Julia’s wedding date, Helen heard a scream coming from her sister’s bedroom. Shortly thereafter, Julia told Helen that she began to hear a low whistling sound in the middle of the night. Two years ago, Helen tells Holmes and Watson, her sister got engaged. Stoner had left an inheritance to Roylott, with a stipulation that should her daughters get married, they would receive an annual income from this fund.

Helen’s mother died and Roylott moved back into his family’s decaying Stoke Moran Manor, along with Helen and her twin sister Julia, all of them living in adjacent bedrooms in the building’s one inhabitable wing. When he was younger, Roylott embarked on a medical career in India, where he married the widowed Mrs.

Grimesby Roylott, is the sole remaining descendent of an old family whose fortune has been slowly reduced to nearly nothing after generations of waste and gambling. Watson’s telling of the narrative starts when a young woman, Helen Stoner, pays them a visit one morning, in desperate need of their help. The Strange Disappearance of Mr.“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” begins with Watson recounting how, of the nearly seventy cases that he and Sherlock Holmes have embarked upon together as a detective duo, the one that he is about to narrate is among the most unusual of them. The Disappearance of the President's Whisker x8 The Adventure of the Child's Perambulator On the Threshold of the Chamber of HorrorsĪ Trip to the Country / A La Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Chubblock Homes (comic strips) The Adventures of Shylock Oames: The Sign of Gore Parodies have the parodic character names mentioned, else the characters are Sherlock Holmes and Watson YearĪdventures of Sherwood Hoakes: An Interrupted HoneymoonĪdventures of Sherwood Hoakes: The Yellow Cockroach Conan Doyle himself has wrote some pastiches : The unofficial Sherlock Holmes stories, and his own son Adrian has wrote twelve : The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. There were pastiches very early when Conan Doyle was still alive. Parodies are humorous stories where the name of Holmes and Watson are changed (like Picklock Holes & Potson). Pastiches of Conan Doyle works are mostly Sherlock Holmes stories written by other authors and as such don't belong to the official Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Adventure of the Speckled Band and Other Stories of Sherl... by Arthur Conan Doyle