The Speckled Band
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatization of The adventure of the speckled band, which originally appeared in the author's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatization of The adventure of the speckled band, which originally appeared in the author's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Graphic Universe ™
Published: 2018-08-01
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 154154059X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It was the band. The speckled band!" After her sister Julia dies suddenly, Helen Stoner worries that she is the killer's next target. With her last words, Julia insisted that the "speckled band" murdered her. Can Holmes and Watson discover the identity of the speckled band before Helen falls victim as well?
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780435213886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of the High Impact series this classic text is retold in an accessible style for those with a reading age of six to seven years. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the death of Helen's sister in time to save Helen's own life?
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 872658638X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young girl fearing for her life comes to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. After having announced her engagement to her stepfather, his behaviour has become even stranger than usual. She is set to inherit her mother’s fortune but fears that he wants to kill her to prevent it. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what happened to her older sister. The latter died under mysterious circumstances the day before her wedding, in the middle of the night. Her last words were: "the speckled band". And now her stepfather insists on her sleeping in the very same room in which her sister died. Sherlock Holmes immediately takes the case. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is part of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9780887349928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoyle's own stage version of The adventure of the speckled band.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781523823178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is the first series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 8th story of the series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".*Matte cover with wrap-around cover art*
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781502785817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHolmes' client is Helen Stoner, a 32-year-old spinster who lives with her stepfather: Dr. Grimesby Roylott of Stoke Moran. Dr Roylott is the last survivor of what was a wealthy but dissolute and violent tempered aristocratic Anglo-Saxon family of Surrey. After returning from India where he had a large medical practice and had served a jail sentence for killing his native Butler in a fit of rage, Roylott—a widower—settles with his two stepdaughters in the broken-down ancestral manor-all that is left of estates that had extended into Berkshire and Hampshire. The doctor becomes notorious for terrorizing the local village because of his quarrelsome personality and violent temper. Dr. Roylott has required Miss Stoner, who is engaged to be married, to move into a particular bedroom of his heavily mortgaged ancestral home in Stoke Moran. This room was the one in which two years before, Helen's twin sister Julia had died under mysterious and dramatic circumstances—uttering the last words "The band! The speckled band!"—just prior to her wedding. Helen is reluctant to sleep in the room because a number of things about the bedroom are mysterious and disturbing. Late at night, Helen hears low whistling sounds followed by a metallic clang. There is a strange bell cord over the bed but it does not appear to work any bell. The rope goes to a ventilator—an opening high in the wall of the room, close to the ceiling—which provides air circulation between Helen's room and an adjacent room of Dr Roylott in the crumbling mansion. In addition, Helen's bed is clamped to the floor; this piece of furniture can never be moved from its position. Stoner surmises that Julia might have been murdered by the gypsies who wear speckled handkerchiefs around their necks, in order to bring in a bit of cash. Dr. Roylott has rented spare rooms in Stoke Moran near them. A cheetah and a baboon also have the run of the property, for Dr. Roylott keeps exotic pets from India.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Graphic Universe ™
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0761368167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of a client whose sister's dying words referred to a mysterious speckled band. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-11
Total Pages: 41
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even more terrible than the truth.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781480001541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran.