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Title: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-16

Publisher: Audioliterature

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a Sherlock Holmes story. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed this was his best Holmes story.

Plot: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rise unusually early one morning to meet a young woman named Helen Stoner. Helen fears that her life is being threatened. Helen's twin sister had died almost two years earlier, shortly before she was also to be married. Helen had heard her sister's dying words, "The speckled band!" but was unable to decode their meaning. Helen, herself is now engaged, and she has begun to hear strange noises and to observe strange activities around Stoke Moran, the impoverished and heavily mortgaged estate where she and her stepfather live.

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Members Reviews:

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The Sherlock Holmes comic book

This book is a joke! The dumbest thing I ever ordered. No mention was made that it was a comic book! And the story IS NOT the story by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle....not even a believable substitute! I would give a minus 1000 if that rating was an option!!!

This ingenious, intriguing mystery at the creepy Stoke Moran with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a real winner ...

The streets outside 221B Baker Street were dark as Helen Stoner approached and pounded on the door of the home of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. They thought the chill of the night air made her tremble, but rather she said, "It is terror." Naturally Holmes knew a lot about her even before she opened her mouth as he was an excellent detective who could tell a lot from very simple clues other people might overlook. Helen quickly caught them up on why she had come for their help. She, her twin sister, Julia, her mother and stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, had once lived in India, but the only two survivors in the family were she and her stepfather. What concerned her was the unusual death of her sister and the strange goings on at Stoke Moran.

Dr. Roylott, who had once murdered a man, was now an eccentric recluse. He rarely spoke and when he did it was with a band of gypsies camped out near the house. He also owned a cheetah and a baboon that roamed the grounds. Holmes's interest was piqued and he urged her to tell him every little detail she could remember surrounding the mysterious death of her sister, Julia. Helen carefully told him about the fateful night that her sister had died of fright. There was that terrified scream, a "low whistle," and a "clanging metal sound." As Julia was in the throes of death she had pointed to her stepfather's room and said, "Oh, Save me, Helen! It was the speckled band!" What was she talking about?

Helen was frightened because recently, in the dead of night, she "heard that same whistle." "Fweet!" She somehow knew that death awaited her too. A motive needed to be found and Stoke Moran needed to be explored, but before they could approach the home, Dr. Grimesby Roylott came to threaten them. It was going to be dangerous and Dr. Watson would be carrying a gun. Julia's room was quickly examined and a few things caught Holmes's eye. There was a dummy bedpull, a useless vent, and a bed that was bolted to the floor.