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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner comes to see Sherlock Holmes at his 221 B Baker Street residence on the recommendation of Mrs. Farintosh, a woman Holmes had helped with a matter regarding "an opal tiara." Miss Stoner...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner is a typical young middle-class Victorian woman. She has always led a sheltered, protected, domestic life. She comes to Sherlock Holmes because she wants guidance. The fact that she is...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Julia is the deceased sister of Helen Stoner, a lady who seeks the help of Sherlock and Dr. Watson. Julia was killed at the family home just a few weeks...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner tells Sherlock Holmes that she is at present unable to pay him for his services. Yet he takes on her case for at least two reasons. One is that he feels sympathetic for a young woman...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The most important event was the death of Helen Stoner's twin sister two years earlier. It is still vividly imprinted on Helen's mind, especially because the mystery of Julia's death was never...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Roylott certainly gives plenty of evidence of possessing violence of temper approaching to mania, but the only evidence that it might be inherited is Helen Stoner's assertion. She must know a...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
When Sherlock Holmes wakes his friend in the early morning, Dr. Watson states: He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven,...
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Literature
Sherlock Holmes is usually considered the protagonist in any of his stories. Helen Stoner comes to him for help because she fears her life is in danger. The prime suspect is her stepfather Dr....
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, such as "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," are set during the time that Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes were roommates at 221B Baker Street in London. And...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The key to the solution of the mystery of Julia Stoner's death is the poisonous snake which Dr. Roylott sent through the ventilator between their rooms and had trained to come back up the bell-rope...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Mr. Sherlock Holmes comes to suspect Dr. Grimesby Roylott of attempting to kill his stepdaughter. The first description of Dr....
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used the words "The Adventure" in many of his Sherlock Holmes stories. Doyle usually saw to it that his hero was not only responsible for the solutions to the mysteries, but...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Watson is a great admirer of Sherlock Holmes. That is why he has elected to study his friend's unique methods and to write extensively about his cases. Holmes frequently refers to Watson as his...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Grimesby Roylott comes to visit Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson in their home on Baker Street, having followed his step-daughter as she traveled there in the wee hours of the morning. The...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
There is plenty of verbal irony in the encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Grimesby Roylott right after Roylott's stepdaughter Helen Stoner has departed for home. Roylott tries to intimidate...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Watson is no longer sharing rooms with Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street when he writes the story titled "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." However, he sets the story back in an earlier...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
If you click on the reference link below you will get the whole text of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." The story opens with the early-morning visit of Helen Stoner....
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
There are several points during Miss Stoner's introduction to her case that we might see as clues for Mr. Holmes. I'll list them off and you can choose which you think was most influential to the...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes lives at the address of 221B Baker Street, London. At the time The Adventure of the Speckled Band was written, this address did not exist. In fact, in Doyle's time, there were only...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
You're in luck! eNotes has summaries of lots of books and short stories available to students. Here is a link to a summary of The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I'm happy to give you a...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner comes to see Sherlock Holmes very early in the morning. She is terrified because she thinks her life is in danger. She tells Holmes and Watson a long back-story which includes an...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is written from the perspective of Dr. John Watson during one of his many adventures with the detective Sherlock...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Watson, the narrator of nearly all the Sherlock Holmes stories, tells us that "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" took place at a time in the past when he was still sharing rooms at 221B Baker...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a master of setting and atmosphere. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” he creates an atmosphere of foreboding and suspense around the Roylott estate. He often...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Doyle uses the description of Julia to build a mood of fear and panic. This is best shown in Helen's recollection of Julia's death in which she is described...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes always wants his clients to be precise as to the details of any problems or stories they tell him. But there is another reason for this and other interjections by the detective...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Many of titles of the Sherlock Holmes stories contain the word "Adventure." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, following the example set by Edgar Allan Poe in his stories involving C. Auguste Dupin,...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
In the story The Speckled Band, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Grimesby Roylott is painted as an eccentric man with a short temper. Dr. Roylott is the stepfather of Helen Stoner, who comes to...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Speckled Band, his most famous character- Sherlock Holmes- saves the life of a young woman. Helen Stoner lives with her stepfather in the country,...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner comes to see Sherlock Holmes because she is terrified. She thinks someone may be trying to kill her, just as someone killed her twin sister Julia two years before. Sherlock Holmes and...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
After Sherlock Holmes has finished examining Helen Stoner's and Dr. Roylott's adjoining bedrooms, Holmes decides that he and Watson must spend the night in Helen's room after her stepfather has...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle excels at creating suspense, and he does so masterfully in the scene in which Holmes and Watson sit in Julia Stoner’s room to discover the secret of the mysterious whistle...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Roylott is Helen and Julia Stoner’s stepfather and Julia’s murderer. Helen Stoner hires Sherlock Holmes to find out what happened to her dead twin sister. She says that her sister said...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Julia Stoner's last words involved a speckled band, which might lead people to think a gypsy did it. Helen Stoner comes to hire Sherlock Holmes because her twin sister died in suspicious...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner visits Holmes because she fears for her life. She is experiencing the same things that her sister did right before her mysterious death and so she hires Holmes to solve the mystery and...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
"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...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," when Holmes tries to break into the room after Miss Stoner fastens the shutters he realizes that he cannot get in from the outside. This means that the...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Probably the most important way in which Helen's situation is similar to that of Julia just before she died two years ago is that Helen is engaged to be married, just as Julia was engaged to be...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The answer to your question comes near the beginning of the story, when Miss Helen Stoner comes to visit Sherlock Holmes to present her mystery. She is the stepdaughter of Dr. Roylott, and speaks...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Holmes learns that Roylott is very strong and also unstable. A woman named Helen Stoner visits Holmes to tell him that she fears that her sister’s death may not have been an accident. She thinks...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Helen Stoner tells Holmes that her stepfather is a violent and quarrelsome man. Helen Stoner comes to see the detective Sherlock Holmes when her sister is killed. She feels that her sister died in...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Julia Stoner was scheduled to get married a fortnight after she died. Helen Stoner comes to hire Sherlock Holmes because her twin sister died and she is afraid that she is next. She hears strange...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes has at least three principal motives for getting involved in Helen's Stoner's case. In the first place, he frequently helps young ladies in distress out of sympathy and chivalry....
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Roylott only meet in person one time. Dr. Watson is present and describes the meeting. Roylott bursts into Holmes' sitting room and tries to interrogate and intimidate the...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Roylott is responsible for his own death, because his murder weapon turned on him. Dr. Roylott trained his snake to kill his step-daughters. Therefore, he is really the one to blame when the...
