How does Conan Doyle create tension and suspense in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band“?
By Stefan Jones
In this essay I am going to explain how Conan Doyle adds tension and suspense to “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” I will be discussing descriptions of the setting and characters also the language he uses, I will also look into the time period it was written.
Sherlock Holmes was written during the Victorian era. This was a time in London when there was much crime and poverty, London was a vile and dangerous place. Victorian people greatly feared crime with Jack the Ripper on the loose, the police couldn’t catch him because their methods were inefficient and many officers were corrupt. Victorians resented the police in London because they did not appear to be protecting the public. In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle created, Sherlock Holmes, Victorians immediately fell for the fictional character. They liked him because he cracked every case and always got the bad guy. He was seen as the perfect detective. When Doyle tried to kill off his famous character, in 1893, he received death threats warning him to keep Holmes alive! Even know over 100 years on from Holmes birth in 1887 he is still popular.