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        <title><![CDATA[Helen Stoner goes to visit Sherlock Holmes because she lives in terror...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Helen Stoner goes to visit Sherlock Holmes because she lives in terror after the strange death of Julia, her sister.

 “It is not cold which makes me shiver,” said the woman in a low voice, changing her seat as requested.


"What, then?”


“It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror.”

 
Helen Stoner was greatly disturbed by the death of her sister. Julia died in strange and horrible circumstances:

She writhed as one who is in terrible...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Helen Stoner come to see Holmes in "The Adventure of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Helen Stoner come to see Holmes in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had the story published in 1892. This was a lean...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had the story published in 1892. This was a lean period for Conan Doyle in terms of his medical practice, and he had plenty of time to write. He was already contemplating Holmes "death" by this time, so it is unsurprising that his hero is a gallant champion of the ladies and remorseless in the demise of the cruel antagonist of the story, Dr. Grimesby Roylott.
There may have been an intention to highlight the plight of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:11:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Helen Stoner tells Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that her step father...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Helen Stoner tells Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that her step father Dr. Roylott of the family of Stoke Moran liked to keep the following animals:

"He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master."

A cheetah is an atypical member of the cat family in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:21:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," what indian animals does Helen...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," what indian animals does Helen Stoner say are living on the estate?
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:26:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What were the author's intentions when writing "The Adventure of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What were the author's intentions when writing "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:30:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes discovers a myriad of clues to ascertain the guilt of Dr...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes discovers a myriad of clues to ascertain the guilt of Dr Roylott and his evil scheme.Here are a few of the key points.
 Firstly, he has a proclivity towards aggression. Helen says that he has a ‘violence of temper approaching to mania’ which indicates he is capable of murder.
 He has had a ‘long residence in the tropics’ which has given him chance to familiarise himself with the strange creatures therein. We are told...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:27:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[During the investigation in 'The Speckled Band' Holmes uses deductive...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[During the investigation in 'The Speckled Band' Holmes uses deductive reasoning to solve the murder. Please give five examples of this.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:17:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dr Grimesby Roylott is a violent, aggressive and intimidating...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dr Grimesby Roylott is a violent, aggressive and intimidating character-

he is a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger.

He was very antisocial and unpopular

 He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies.

 Roylott was also known to be physically violent towards his stepdaughters -

 Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little livid...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:07:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dr Roylott himself is largely to blame for his own demise. He has the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dr Roylott himself is largely to blame for his own demise. He has the fatal flaw of greed for the money bestowed on his stepdaughters and uses violent means to bring about the death of one of them, Julia. It is only through the intervention of the brilliant Sherlock Holmes who uncovers Roylott’s evil snakebite scheme that the second stepdaughter, Helen, is not killed also. There is a neatness in Roylott’s death being due to the very...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:32:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The protagonist is, as with most of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The protagonist is, as with most of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes.
In this story Holmes faces the formidable Dr Roylott - ably assisted by his great friend Dr Watson. The case is brought to Holmes by Helen Stoner, a delicate young lady fearing for her life after the violent and inexplicable death of her sister. She is suspicious of her volatile stepfather as he would have been significantly in debt should...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:23:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is the protagonist in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is the protagonist in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:07:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In your judgement who is most responsible for Dr Roylott's death in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In your judgement who is most responsible for Dr Roylott's death in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle?
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:17:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can somebody please give me a character description of Dr Grimsby...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can somebody please give me a character description of Dr Grimsby Roylott from "The Adventures of the Speckled Band"  with some quotes?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:33:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Helen Stoner is the young woman who travels to London to seek out...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Helen Stoner is the young woman who travels to London to seek out Holmes' help with a problem involving her stepfather. Helen and her sister Julia lived with their stepfather, Dr. Roylott, after the death of their mother. Dr. Roylott is a miserly, bad-tempered man whom Helen suspects was involved in the death of her sister some years earlier.
The plot of the story involves a small inheritance the girls' mother left for them should they marry....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:09:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is Helen Stoner in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is Helen Stoner in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:22:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is a simple theme in this story, good vs evil.  Dr. Grimbsy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is a simple theme in this story, good vs evil.  Dr. Grimbsy Roylott represents evil and Sherlock Holmes is a force for good.  If you wanted to characterize it more dramatically, you could say that it is a story about chivalry, where Sherlock Holmes is the white knight rescuing the damsel in distress, Helen Stoner from the evil clutches of the dark lord, Dr. Grimbsy Roylott.
Holmes emerges as a hero, slays the dragon (Roylott), rescues...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:12:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A young woman named Helen Stoner consults the detective Sherlock Holmes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A young woman named Helen Stoner consults the detective Sherlock Holmes about the suspicious death of her sister, Julia. One night, after conversing with her twin sister about her big day, Julia suddenly reappeared in Helen's room, struggling to breathe, and died soon afterwards. Julia had been engaged to be married and, had she lived, would have received an annual 250 GBP annuity from her late mother's income. Now Helen is engaged to be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:06:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the main theme of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the main theme of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:40:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dr. Roylott's plan backfires because he is unsuccessful in killing Helen...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dr. Roylott's plan backfires because he is unsuccessful in killing Helen in the same way that he killed her twin sister, Julia, by allowing a deadly snake to crawl into a vent, enter her room and bite her during the night.  Julia was bitten as she slept in her bed which was nailed to the floor so that the snake would easily land on the bed as it crawled down the fake bell cord.
Julia's murder was only the first part of Dr. Roylott's plan, he...]]></description>
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