Can someone tell me a quick summary on "The Adventure of the Speckled band"?

Question

i's about Sherlock Holmed and by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.How does he solve the mystery?wat happens?wat was "the speckled band"?

Answer 1

Helen Stoner comes to Sherlock Holmes because she is afraid. Her sister Julia died under suspicious circumstanse. She was engaged and was going to receive 250 punds a year on the date of her marriage from her mother's estate. She died shortly before her marriage and all she said to her sister befor eshe died was, "the speckled band."
Helen is now engaged to be married as well. But, her stepfather, Dr. Roylott has now moved her to the same room where Julia used to sleep. She now hears a whistling late at night and clanking of something metal that wakes her up and there is a bell cord that does not work. Dr. Roylott keeps a lot of exotic pets like a baboon and a cheetah, which also scare her.
Helen think that maybe a bunch of gypsies that her stepfather lets live on teh grounds killed her sister in that is what the speckled band means.
Holmes goes to investigate and late at night hear all that she says. A clanking and a whistle. A snake comes down the broken bell cord and holes shoes it back up and it goes back into the other room and kills Dr. Roylott.
Dr. Roylott had killed Julia and was planning on murdering Helen because when they got married the annuities would go to them from their mother's estate. The speckled band was an adder that was one of his many exotic pets. The clanking was the opening of a safe that the snake was kept in and the whistling was something to loosen up the snake and stop it from biting him.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

It is a locked room type mystery. How did the murder happen if no one could enter the bedroom? The first clue to the murder of Julia Stoner was her last words. It was the band.. the speckled band...

Holmes had a suspect from the very beginning, the evil-tempered stepfather who stands to lose money if his stepdaughter marries. Holmes used the clues of the bell rope, the vent that went nowhere, and a metal safe with a bowl of milk to solve the mystery. The stepfather had a swamp adder (speckled band) that he trained with a whistle. He would put it through the vent so it would go into the bedroom and down the bell rope into the bed where his stepdaughter slept. It was only a matter of time before the snake would bite the victim. The stepfather called it back into his room with a whistle. Holmes stayed in the bedroom all night until he heard the whistle and whacked the snake with a crop until it turned back and attacked the stepfather. Case closed.

Answer 3

The "Speckled Band" was a venomous snake that slithered through the heating ducts of a house and bit people. Sherlock guessed that it was something like that and lay in wait for it in someobne's bedroom. Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Quick -- see if your local library has Masterplots online. This database gives summaries of major works of fiction and poetry and is a great resource for questions like this. If they don't have it online, ask the librarian to read you the entry from their print copy.