The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Dr. Roylott is characterized as a strong, intimidating, and sometimes cruel man. One of the events in Dr. Roylott's life that shows both his strength and his cruelty happened while he lived in...

Dr. Roylott was guilty of murdering Julia by sending a highly poisonous snake into her bedroom, which was adjacent to his. The snake would crawl through the ventilator and down the dummy bell-rope...

The three most important clues are all seen by Sherlock Holmes in the room at Stoke Moran currently being occupied by Helen Stoner, which had been her sister Julia's room when she died two years...

Short Answer: Julia dies after being bitten by her step-father's venomous swamp adder. At the beginning of the story, Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and explains to them that...

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is an example of a sub-genre of mystery stories commonly called a "Locked Room Murder Mystery." Julia was in her bedroom when she experienced the pains and...

There were several strange modifications to the rooms in which both of the Roylott ladies resided. The fact that there was any work going on at all at the house was immediately suspicious: Some...

When Dr. Grimesby Roylott comes to 221B Baker Street from Stoke Moran to confront Sherlock Holmes, he warns Holmes not to meddle in his affairs: "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he...

With Dr. Roylott out of the house and unlikely to return to Stoke Moran before evening, it's a good opportunity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to go snooping around his bedroom to see if they...

Holmes and Watson wait for many hours in the darkness of Julia’s room before anything of interest happens. However, a little after the clock ticks three, the two men see a light gleam in Dr....

In the short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a woman named Helen Stoner approaches Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in fear that her life is threatened by her...

Most Sherlock Holmes stories are solved with the same formula. Holmes and Watson are usually sought out by someone in distress who tells them of their problem. Then the duo set out to...

The main Sherlock Holmes trait that shines through this story is his step-by-step reliance on observation and rationality to solve a crime. For example, he startles Miss Stoner on first meeting her...

The short answer to this is that Helen Stoner, in the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” comes to see Sherlock Holmes because she fears that someone is going to try to kill her. The...

Dr. Ryloth trained his snake, the “swamp adder” to bite his niece Julia so he did not have to give her the family fortune when she married. Dr. Ryloth was a sinister criminal. Sherlock Holmes...

In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," the principal crime occurred two years ago when Helen Stoner's sister Julia was murdered by their stepfather Dr. Grimesby Roylott. He was also guilty of the...

When Helen Stoner comes to see Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street in the early morning, she tells him, significantly: “When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner....My sister...

It is typical of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories that the great detective explains his whole line of reasoning--almost invariably to his friend and biographer Dr. Watson--near the very...

Holmes is on to Dr. Roylott almost from the start. Once he finds out that Roylott is a convicted criminal, convicted for homicide, no less, he suspects that he had something to do with the death of...

When Miss Helen Stoner brought her case to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, Holmes had some suspicions about what might be happening to her. Miss Stoner fears that someone is trying to kill...

The point of view in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," as in other Sherlock Holmes stories, is first person limited. Specifically, the narrator, Dr. John Watson, is a first person witness...

When Holmes and Watson find the dead body of Dr. Roylott at the end of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Watson says that Roylott "had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which...

It seems to me that the paragraph you write for your assignment could begin with more or less the same words as those stated in the question: Sherlock Holmes is known for his intuition, and his...

When Sherlock Holmes is inspecting the bedrooms at Stoke Moran, he finds many clues. In Helen Stoner's room he finds a ventilator that only leads into Dr. Roylott's room next door rather than to...

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is written from the perspective of Dr. John Watson, Holmes's close friend and avid admirer, and through his eyes Doyle presents a picture of Sherlock Holmes as...

Dr. Roylett's motive was money. His wife's will stated that the total income they would get from her estate would be 100 pounds. Due to the fact that agriculture prices had fallen, the estate was...

This last line of the short story is spoken by Sherlock Holmes. He is explaining how he got the poisonous snake Dr. Grimesby Roylott was using as a murder weapon to turn on Roylott and bite him....

The two sounds that stand out in Helen's memory of the night of her sister's death are described by her to Sherlock Holmes at their initial meeting in the early morning. As I opened my door I...

Holmes advises Helen to remain in her present room until Dr. Roylott retires for the night. Roylott is a violent man. He might subject Helen to verbal and even physical abuse after learning that...

In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Dr. Roylott dies from being bitten by a poisonous snake. Dr. Roylott has devised an ingenious and diabolical scheme to murder both his stepdaughters before...

A physical description of Helen Stoner is in paragraph 10 at the beginning of the story. It says, ".....her face all drawn and grey, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted...

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is an example of a so-called "locked-room murder mystery." The biggest question is: "How could Julia Stoner have been murdered in her bedroom with her door...

The setting in this story changes in the middle of the tale. At the beginning, the story is set in Sherlock Holmes's quarters on Baker Street, London, in April of 1883. It is there that Helen...

Before Julia died she had told her sister Helen about hearing a strange whistling but could not tell exactly where it was coming from. Helen explains to Holmes and Watson why she is presently...

According to Helen Stoner's long description of the night Julia Stoner died two years earlier, Helen was holding a burned out match in one hand and a matchbox in the other. These are the exact...

After talking with Helen Stoner for a long time in the early morning, and after the tumultuous intrusion of her stepfather Dr. Roylott, Holmes goes to Doctors' Commons to do some research. When he...

In the Arthur Conan Doyle story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Dr. Grimesby Roylott tries to kill his stepdaughter, Helen Stoner, by introducing a deadly snake into her room to bite her....

At the end of the story, after Helen Stoner has been saved from death and Dr. Grimesby Roylott has been killed by his own snake, Holmes tells Watson all about his deductions from the evidence found...

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...

Helen Stoner comes to see Holmes because she wants him to investigate her sister's death and also because she fears that she will meet the same fate as her sister. Essentially, Helen wants Holmes...

After Holmes has carefully examined the three bedrooms at Stoke Moran, he tells Helen that she must sleep in her old bedroom and that he and Watson will spend the night in the bedroom she has...

When Sherlock Holmes first meets Helen Stoner, he can see that she is agitated and fearful. He makes note of her "restless frightened eyes" and her hair that has prematurely gone grey. She looks...

As Sherlock Holmes discovers in the course of his investigation, Dr. Roylott has close connections with India. It turns out that Roylott spent a lot of time in the country, first as a medical...

After examining Helen Stoner's bedroom, Sherlock Holmes has concluded that Dr. Roylott is sending a snake through their communicating ventilator. He tells Watson later: My attention was speedily...

Helen Stoner is afraid Sherlock Holmes will refuse to help her because she does not have enough money to pay his fee. She tells him: Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, too, and at...

The resolution is the part of the story that ties up the loose ends. In this case, it is when Sherlock explains to Dr. Watson how he solved the mystery. Sherlock Holmes had made the logical...

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a story of the type sometimes called a "locked-room mystery," in which the deceased has apparently taken every possible precaution against their own death....