The Adventure of the Speckled Band Group

Question:

lol1234
lol1234
Student
High School - 9th Grade

During the investigation in 'The Speckled Band' Holmes uses deductive reasoning to solve the murder. Please give five examples of this.

http://fortbendisd.com/campuses/documents/Teacher/2009/teacher_20091028_0817.pdf

or

http://221bakerstreet.org/adventures/speckled_band.txt

this is the actual story!

all the help possible is needed! :)

thank you soooo much! :)

Rate question:

Posted by lol1234 on Friday October 30, 2009 at 5:17 AM and tagged with deductive reasoning, examples.

Answers:

  1. kiwi
    kiwi Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    Best answer as selected by question asker.

    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 he has ‘a passion also for Indian animals’ and keeps several on the property.

     Helen reveals the strange issue of the ‘whistle in the dead of the night’ which her sister Julia reported to her before her death, and which she hears before she contacts Holmes.

     Holmes discovers that Roylott would be destitute without his stepdaughters. –

     ‘if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.’

     Holmes expects that there have been adaptations to Helen’s room which will point to the source of the mystery. These three factors give him his final pieces to the puzzle-

     The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same relative position to the ventilator and to the rope -- or so we may call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull."

    I hope this helps!

     

     

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/adventure-speckled-qn/

    Rate answer:

    Posted by kiwi on Saturday October 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM