The Adventure of the Speckled Band

In the book "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Sherlock Holmes believed that "doctor's make the greatest criminals."I think Holmes came to the conclusion that " doctors make the greatest criminals" because doctors are able to legally prescribe drugs and medications that if one takes to much of it can kill. Doctors will not be held a countable for this because it's a label of directions that the states the amount to be taken a day.When doctors prescribe the drug there is no suspicion that it's…

metallic sound. This was very important to the movie because if there was not a whistle, you would not get the same feeling as you did in the story. Another similarity was that the movie had the same wording taken directly from the “Adventures of the Speckled Band”. This was essential to the movie because if they didn’t take the wording from the story, what else could they have said. It is easier to compare when there are more words in common with a movie and a story. The movie and story were…

This is displayed in the short story “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.” A woman’s husband has been murdered by what is thought to be a notorious gang. Holmes and Watson are invited to solve the crime. While at the crime scene, Holmes and Watson are discussing the significance of the wine glasses…

The story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a foul play mystery. It takes place in early April 1883, at the Roylott Stoke Moran Manor. The main conflict centers around a timid yet intelligent woman, Helen Stoner who lives with her deviant, selfish stepfather, Dr. Roylott. She fears for her own life and is suspicious of the death of her sister, Julia, on the eve of Julia’s wedding. The exposition, or beginning, of the mystery is when Helen seeks the assistance of…

stepdaughter’s money as well. As long as his stepdaughter, Mary Sutherland, remains unmarried and lives at home he has access to her money. He prevents Miss Sutherland from marrying by pretending to be her lover. In another case, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Helen Stoner comes to Holmes because she feels threatened by her stepfather. Helen’s twin sister suffered a sudden violent death before she was to be married. Helen is now engaged to be married, and has been moved into the room…

the one and only woman who gets the best of Sherlock Holmes ever. Pleased with this story, it was rather easy to figure out what was going to happen. Some other favorites were “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” which is one of the few in this collection that I actually underestimated at first and “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” which is just so creepy, and creepy or scary stories are a huge thing for me. The set of stories provide for interesting and entertaining look of Sherlock…

onto Aragon’s back. Mason and I scramble up behind her. The burning sand quivered as the dragon picked his way to the top of the highest Plateau and stopped at the summit, which gave us an unrivaled view of the terrain. A patchwork of Barrel cactus speckled the sand and spread across sand dunes that rose away to meet lonely flat-topped mesa with steep sides, where the sun was casting its first long plum and russet shadows like a bantam rooster tail transforming the land with color. It was…

Out of all the detective stories, the two that have made the most impact in the genre are Edgar Allen Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Although they were written years apart, Holmes and Dupin have as much in common, such as skills, qualities and results, as they have differences. This essay will focus on comparing and contrasting these two detectives. First, Dupin and Holmes have certain methods, qualities and skills in common. Second, the successes and failures…

The prompt was flexible and the freedom of rewriting “The Adventures of the Speckled Band” was exciting. However, once I got to actually rewriting, the process involved a lot more creative writing than I initially realized. I had trouble actually sounding like Chandler because the essay still had my style of writing. It did…

There is no exception for one of the most famous sidekicks, Dr. Watson, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Though there have been hundreds of books made about Sherlock and his trusty sidekick Watson, the specific one focused on is, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.” In this story, a damsel in distress seeks the aid of Sherlock Holmes because her sister has been killed and she fears for her own life. Once Hellen finishes her side of the story and leaves, the mastermind behind the killing, Dr.…