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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Narrated by Marc Smythe

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    "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.


    Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife—Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married.


    During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator. Holmes attacks the snake with his riding crop; it retreats to the next room, where it attacks and kills Stoner's stepfather.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateDec 13, 2023
    ISBN9781593167318
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

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