Helen Stoner tells Holmes and Watson that she lives with her stepfather Grimesby Roylott in his ancestral home of Stoke Moran in Surrey. Helen Stoner speaks to Holmes and Watson, 1892 illustration by Sidney Paget. She appears to be about thirty years old but her hair is already turning grey. The woman who has come to see Holmes is named Helen Stoner. The fact that a female client has come to see him so early suggests that the case will be an interesting one and Holmes does not want his friend to miss out on any of its details. Holmes explains that a client, a young woman, has arrived. Watson is awoken shortly after seven o'clock one morning by Holmes. However, he now feels at liberty to do so because the client who brought it to Holmes' attention has died.ĭr. Watson explains that he had promised not to write about the case earlier. John Watson has not yet married and is still living with his friend the detective Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street. The story was also ranked as number one in a list of the ten best Sherlock Holmes stories which were voted for by readers of The Baker Street Journal in 1959. In a list of the twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories compiled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for The Strand magazine in 1927, the author named "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his favorite. There have been numerous adaptations of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" to other media, including a stage play written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
She immediately comes to the conclusion that her life is in danger. Shortly after she gets engaged to be married herself, Helen hears a whistle late at night for the first time. A few hours before she died, Julia asked her sister if she had ever heard a whistle late at night. The last words which she spoke to Helen concerned a "speckled band". Julia died in agony two weeks before she was due to be married. Following the mysterious death of her twin sister Julia two years earlier, Helen Stoner has become the only person (apart from an old housekeeper) to share the home of her bad tempered stepfather Dr. In the story, a woman named Helen Stoner approaches Sherlock Holmes for help. In August 1905, the story was published, under the title "The Speckled Band", in the New York World newspaper. It would be republished in October of the same year as the eighth of the twelve stories in the anthology The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
It was first published in the February 1892 issue of the magazine The Strand. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Front cover of a 1982 Chinese graphic novel adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".
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