The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Mysteries tingle the senses. They cause one’s brain to constantly be on-edge, in case a certain detail might bring an element of the truth into light. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, the mystery of a young lady’s death draws the attention of the most-curious Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is very observant and from the smallest details does he solve the murder case. By the end of the short story, Holmes comes to the conclusion that “doctors make the greatest criminals”…

Sherlock stories. What are the things that make Sherlocks Holmes a good author. The first story i'm comparing is The adventure of the speckled band to a story called The Murders Of In Rue Morgue. These stories are different and similar in many ways. The first thing that makes the stories similar is the murders. However, the murders occur differently. In The adventure of the speckled band Helen and Roylott were bitten by a snake and were killed. In The Murders Of The rue morgue the murders…

exaggerating the effect of the storm. Finally the application of the simile “frightened eyes like those of a hunted animal” (page 265) reveal to an extent the venerability and fear of Miss Stoner expressed through her eyes. Therefore The Adventure of the Speckled Band’s extensive exploration of the elements of fear and anxiety and the use of the crumbling manor as a setting for this short story connects with the Gothic characteristics of fear, anxiety and…

is “to hurt someone who trusts [another], such as a friend or relative by not giving help or by doing something morally wrong.” This is shown in the stories The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conrad Doyle, In a Far Country by Jack London, and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, betrayal is one of the main themes that are shown. The entire story…

London.” Although Holmes never once boast about his accomplishment and show off to others however, with such an incredible reputation all of the praise still affect Holmes making him a little arrogance. In one of Doyle’s short stories call “The Adventure of Abbey Grange”, Holmes asked Inspector Hopkins if he sees anything strange with the evidence but when the Inspector did not Holmes said, “What? You see nothing remarkable? Well, well, let it pass. Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and…

unusual, and even the fantastic”. For instance, The “Adventure of the Speckled Band” is about a stepfather who murders his step-daughter and tries to murder his other step-daughter, with his motive being greed for money. I believe murder, especially within family, is a very substantial crime. “The Red-Headed League” also has a crime that is noteworthy: bank robbery. As these examples indicate, Doyle made sure that his…

The story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band’ centers around a professional detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his experiences while assisting a troubled young woman named Helen Stoner. The story takes place at Stoke Moran in April of 1883. Helen traveled to Sherlock and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson, early in the morning in a state of instability. She explained the fairly unsettling occurrences in which she had been struggling with recently. Julia, Helen’s sister, died due to an undetermined…

The swamp adder didn’t kill Julia because Dr. Grimesby “died within ten seconds of being bitten” while, in comparison, Julia was able to get out of her bed, walk down the hall, and warn Helen about a speckled band (44, 57). On that note, Helen has been purposely leaving clues like the “speckled band” to suggest that Dr. Grimesby has a means of killing the woman indirectly while still being to blame (44). Helen’s deceiving nature is what makes the story so compelling. Helen’s fear for her life…

Not only did he write a lot, he wrote for many different genres. “He wrote more than 240 fictions of all genres like history, fantasy, adventure, science-fiction, crimes, drama, war... and more than 1200 other works as essays, pamphlets, articles, letters to the press, poems, interviews, plays... on every subjects such as politics, spiritualism, war, crimes, etc.” (The Arthur Conan Doyle…

success by having certain qualities. We can examine these qualities by the methods used by Edger Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that maintains the interests of the reader in the murder mysteries, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Speckled Band. One quality is the narrator of the story. The narrators tell the story in their points of view. Another quality is the detective themselves. The different detecting skills. An additional quality is who the detective was helping (the client),…