‘Of all the stories in ‘the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ ‘The speckled Band’ is probably, the one that most successfully combines all the quality’s of a classic detective story.’ What in your opinion are these qualitie

"You have come in by train this morning, I see"

"You know me, then?"

"No, but I observed the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your glove"

Mr Holmes has very strong powers of deduction, he thinks logically and takes everything in that he observes. He has a check list in his mind from which he deduces what he has seen. It seems that Mr Holmes has a very high form of education, as he is not like an average person, he is an eccentric. Sherlock Holmes talks in a very posh country kind of manner, this shows he had a privileged up bringing. The tone is shown when Sherlock wakes Dr.Watson.

"Very sorry to knock you up, Watson."

Dr.Watson is the narrator of 'The Speckled Band.' Dr.Watson is more a normal man, he is not as observant as Mr. Holmes. It is shown he isn't as observant as Sherlock Holmes in the quote:

"Did you see anything more that me?" asked Dr.Watson

"No, but I fancy I may have deduced a little more" said Sherlock Holmes.

This shows how Dr.Watson thinks like an average person, he is there to ask the questions that the reader would be asking. Dr.Watson is a very educated man and his relationship is more that a work one with Holmes, he is more like a friend to Holmes. This relationship is a blue print for every relationship in a detective series. An example of this is inspector Morse and his assistant sergeant Lewis. The relationship is based souly on the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson. I think that the Holmes and Watson relationship works so well because Holmes is so eccentric and Watson is so down to earth and normal. Dr.Watson is a very educated man as shown in this quote

"My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything"

This quote indicates that Dr.Watson is a very educated and very privileged. His tome of speaking is very smart. Both Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson live in a bachelors pad in Baker Street. There is a standard structure to every Sherlock Holmes story, the structure is that first a person who is helpless and in distress fist comes to see Sherlock Holmes, the they tell him the story, Sherlock then visits the crime scene and slowly works out the motives, when he has worked it out he doesn't tell any one right until the end of the story. This is called the denovement.

In 'The Speckled Band' Miss. Stoner is the victim. When she talks to Sherlock Holmes for the first time she is described as

'A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled'