Sherlock Holmes In The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

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Every hard working detective such as Sherlock Holmes knows how to accumulate clues to a crime. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery story,”The Adventure of the Speckled Band,”Holmes makes his presence in the investigation of a young woman’s death, with suspicion of the stepfather Dr. Roylott. Holmes finds out the motive, discovers a building fault that could conclude to a clue. Additionally, he discovers a mysterious restriction to an everyday furniture item. This unusual restraint to an everyday object is evident in the case.
Sherlock Holmes suspects Dr. Roylott as the murderer of Julia due to the bizarre restriction on an everyday furniture item. Holmes’s study of minutiae leads to a peculiar clue,a clamped bed to the floor. Holmes then explains

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