Speckled Band Mystery

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The Adventure of the Speckled Band (From the Perspective of Dr. John Watson) I was awoken with a start looking up at the face of my dear friend, the great Sherlock Holmes. He and I have solved many a mystery together. Although his intelligence would trump even the most well-versed man, he insists that he only uses “Simple observation and deduction”. His cases aren’t quite so simple if you ask me, but I guess to him it’s as easy as an afternoon stroll through the park would be to you or I. But I digress. This particular morning Sherlock must have been in preparation for something he cared dearly about, for he is a notoriously late riser. I was stunned to see that my bedside clock read only 7:15 in the morning. “Sorry to wake you”, said …show more content…

Also, Holmes spotted a tiny leash on the other side of the room, by the door. Upon inspecting the leash, “It’s a wicked world”, Holmes said. “Especially when a brilliant man turns his brains to crime.” Holmes and I waited in a cottage across the yard from Stoke Moran, eagerly waiting for night time. I very much dislike these stakeouts, or at least the part where we sit and wait for night. I always have the feeling that Holmes has already solved it, and I am just sitting in the dark. For his brilliant mind can do ten times what man can, and in a shorter amount of time, too. What I see as a bunch of scattered pieces of a large puzzle, Holmes sees as one clear picture with a million possibilities, from which he can pick out one. Just as my watch struck 11 o’clock, a single, glowing light was illuminated in the window of Stoke Moran. Our signal. As we crept through a wall and through to the window of the mansion, a hideous and childlike figure darted across the lawn and into a patch of bushes. As I, still horrified, caught my breath, Holmes began to chuckle, as he explained to me that it was only the doctor’s

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