The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- First Published: 1892
- Type of Plot: Mystery and detective
- Time of Work: 1883
- Setting: London and Surrey, England
- Principal Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Helen Stoner, Sir Grimesby Roylott
- Genres: Short fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Detectives, Inheritance or succession, Mysteries, Private investigators
- Locales: London, England, Surrey, England
The Story
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rise unusually early one morning to meet Helen Stoner, a young woman who fears that her life is being threatened by her stepfather, Sir Grimesby Roylott, a doctor who practiced in India and who was married to Helen's mother there. Helen's sister has died almost two years earlier, shortly before she was to be married. Helen had heard her sister's dying words, “The speckled band!” but had been unable to understand their meaning. Now Helen, too, is engaged, and she has begun to hear strange noises and to observe strange activities...
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See Also:
Arthur Conan Doyle (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Arthur Conan Doyle (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Arthur Conan Doyle (Short Fiction)Arthur Conan Doyle (Dictionary of World Biography)Arthur Conan Doyle (Long Fiction)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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