Summary Of The Speckled Band

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For my creative project I put together a case file based upon the fictional murder of Julia Stoner detailed in “The Speckled Band”, a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I wanted to make the case file look realistic so I used a manilla folder with a picture of the “Stoner twins” attached to the front. Since the case in the story was unsolved in 1982 and Sherlock Holmes solved the case in April of 1983, I included this information on the file. A case number is written on the top of the file to make it look more realistic. Inside the file, one can find crime scene photos. One picture shows the eerie Stoke Moran, the house where Julia, her sister Helen, and their step-father Dr. Roylott lived in. Another shows dead Julia Stoner, while the

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