The Adventure of the Speckled Band

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   When Helen Stoner is re-telling the story of her sister's death and Holmes asks her that very question, she guesses that it may refer to the gypsy people who are living on the estate the guests of her step father.  She hypothesizes that maybe the adjective speckled referred to the dotted scarves of the gypsies.  This sets the reader up to consider the speckled band as a group of people and the main suspects the gypsies.  

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   Posted by merehughes on Monday November 5, 2007 at 9:07 AM
   
   

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