The Speckled Band is about a lady named Helen Stoner who asks Sherlock Holmes if he can help her out with her case. Her sister Julia has just died and she does not know why. Helen told Holmes that one day they were talking and Helen heard a scream. Julia tells Helen right before she dies that it was the speckled band that killed her. Helen tells Holmes that they have a very violent stepfather, so Holmes first thinks about him as a suspect. When Holmes goes to investigate the house, he finds that there is a cheeta living outside and a baboon. He has an idea that gysies might be the cause of her death. Dr. Roylott, Helen's stepfather confronts Holmes and wants to know what his stepdaughter has told him, but Holmes does not say and will not say. Roylott gets very upset and takes an iron poker and tries and scares Holmes by bending it. The whistle that makes the noise and then sees the bell chord after sneeking into Helen's home without Roylott's permission. Holmes figures out that the bell chord is in fact a transfer rope for a deadly snake, which is the "speckled band" that Julia saw. He also concludes that the whistle noise is Dr. Roylott who trained the snake to go down the chord when the noise sounds and then to come back up. Holmes attacks the snake after it is sent to kill Helen, and in turn, kills Dr. Roylott instead.
Out of all three stories, this story was my favorite because I would have never guessed what happened to Julia, while with the other ones, I had an idea of what was going to happen by the end.
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