One day, a young girl named Helen Stoner came to Sherlock Holmes.
She lived
with her stepfather, Dr. Roylott on their estate in the country.
Two years ago, the girl lost his sister Julia.
Julia had died two weeks before her wedding under mysterious circumstances.
Helen's sister told her that she had heard some whistling and banging.
At night, she ran out of her room, crying "the speckled band" and fell
dead.
The cause of her death wasn't found out.
Helen was going to marry and at night she heard whistling and banging too.
She was very frightened that is why she turned to Sherlock Holmes for help.
It turned out that Dr.Roylott was a murderer.
He committed the crime because he didn't want his stepdaughters to get their
mother's money.
He brought a poisonous snake into the girls' rooms but in the end it was the
snake's bite that killed him too.
This story is written by a famous English writer Arthur Conan Doyl. I liked the
tale "The Speckled Band" because the plot is very interesting, exciting
and full of mysterious events. The author keeps readers in suspense till the
end of the story and it is impossible to predict the upshot.
In my opinion the most interesting and exciting turnaround of events is the
moment of appearing a snake in the girl's room.
I recommend everybody who is fond of detectives to read this story.