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The Speckled Band Introduction of the ebook: The Speckled Band
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Part of the High Impact series this classic text is retold in an accessible style for those with a reading age of six to seven years. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the death of Helen’s sister in time to save Helen’s own life? Part of the High Impact series this classic text is retold in an accessible style for those with a reading age of six to seven years. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the death of Helen’s sister in time to save Helen’s own life? …more
Review ebook The Speckled Band
This is it. The Sherlock Holmes story I was waiting for. It’s a classic!
Update: To end my 2019 reading challenge I’m reading (and in some cases rereading) the dozen stories Arthur Conan Doyle marked as his favorites. “The Speckled Band” is #1, on both his list and (so far at least) on mine. Read it!
A drawn, frightened woman comes to Sherlock and Dr. Watson for help. Though Helen Stoner is only about 30, she’s haggard and graying. She and her twin sister Julia have been living with their stepfa This is it. The Sherlock Holmes story I was waiting for. It’s a classic!
Update: To end my 2019 reading challenge I’m reading (and in some cases rereading) the dozen stories Arthur Conan Doyle marked as his favorites. “The Speckled Band” is #1, on both his list and (so far at least) on mine. Read it!
A drawn, frightened woman comes to Sherlock and Dr. Watson for help. Though Helen Stoner is only about 30, she’s haggard and graying. She and her twin sister Julia have been living with their stepfather, Dr. Roylott, for several years in a decaying Victorian mansion in Surrey. He’s a brutal, harsh man who spent many years living in India (not that that’s a clue or anything). The family hasn’t got a lot of money any more, but with the girls’ inheritance they get by.
Two years ago, Julia became engaged to a marine major. Within two weeks she was dead, mysteriously convulsed by pain in the middle of the night. Her last words:”It was the band! The speckled band!”Now Helen, too, is engaged, and she is sleeping temporarily in her sister’s room because of house repairs that affect her own room. The night before she came to Sherlock Holmes, she woke in the middle of the night to hear a low whistle–the same sound that heralded her sister’s death two years before.
Luckily, she has the sense to dash off to Sherlock Holmes the next morning. Unluckily, she has been followed. Luckily, she has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on her team!
Don’t let anyone spoil this one for you! It’s tense and a great read. I did a little research afterwards and I understand that there are factual inaccuracies(view spoiler)[ with the snake not actually being a type found in India, as well as its supposed taste for milk and ability to respond to a whistle (hide spoiler)] . My advice is, don’t fret the details here. Just roll with it and enjoy the story!
Free as part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes short story collection, here at Project Gutenberg. …more
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