"The Speckled Band" - review.

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" The Speckled Band" is about a cruel stepfather (Dr. Roylott) with an intention of murdering his step daughters to acquire their property. He succeeds in murdering his elder stepdaughter, Julia, in a mysterious way . When his younger stepdaughter, Helen, gets suspicious about everything as the mysterious circumstances repeated themselves she contacts Mr. Holmes in fear to help her to find out whether her sister´s death was a murder and if it was to find the murderer. Mr. Roylott then tried to use an Indian snake to murder Helen Stoner and during the climax the snake bit Mr . Roylott himself.

The Speckled band is about the famous Sherlock Holmes trying to solve another murder mystery. A girl called Miss Helen Stoner comes to see Holmes about what had happened to her sister. Her sister Julia died mysteriously just two weeks before her wedding. Helen and Julia lived with their stepfather Dr Grimesby Roylott. Dr Roylott was a æmorose and disappointed man with a hereditary temperÆ.

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The murderer in 'The Speckled Band' was Doctor Grimesby Roylott. He was a violent man who had a bad and short temper "In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death". After his wife dies he shut himself up and became very violent "But a terrible change came over our step-father about this time…"he is a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger". His motive for trying to kill Miss Helen Stoner was over money. His deceased wife left money for ...

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