Sherlock Holmes The Speckled Band Essay, Research Paper

The Speckled Band

This story is about a women that asks for

Shelock Holmes help because she belives that she is going to die like her sister that died two years before. She belives that her sister was either frightened to death or killed by gipsies. Because when this woman Helen found her sister the last words the she sad were: ??Helen! Oh my God, Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!?. All this happend just before Helens sister was suposed to get married. And there mother was also a rich woman but she died long before all this happend and their stepfather got ?750 a year from his dead wifes fund. But if the sisters would marry he would have to pay them ?250 each a year so if the girls would marry he wouldn?t get all the money!

But now Helen had decided to get married but then a few days later her stepfather decided to mend the wall of Helens room so that she had to move into her sisters room and now she was scared for her live. So Sherlock Holmes went to investigate. Holmes investigated the whole house and he build up a plan to catch the murderer! Holmes had found out that there was an air-vent that was inside the house between the sisters room and the stepfathers. Holmes now was in the room that Helen was suposed to be in and suddenly the light was lit in the stepfathers room, and then Sherlock jumped and hit the bellrobe under the air-vent. Then there was a little whistle and then a scream and Holmes ran to the other room and there was the stepfather dead and with a speckled band on him. It was no band it was a Indian snake that the stepfather used to kill Helens sister and was going to kill Helen with it to but Holmes saved the day once again

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