The Adventure of the speckled band was one of the many stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote with Sherlock Holmes in it. This story is about the twin sister of Helen Stoner, which was Julia that died mysteriously and there is Sherlock Holmes who is the one who is going to find the mystery with his friend Watson. Moreover the person that asks for help from that great and famous detective is Helen. Julia died in a bedroom that now her sister is going to live in. Moreover this story is also about Dr. Royllot a physician that was suspected as the murderer of Julia.
The speckled band was the last word that Julia said when she died that was what Dr. Royllot said to her sister and what she said to Sherlock. Helen stayed the night in the room that her sister died. At one time she heard some noises that were mysterious and disturbing. The 5th night Sherlock Holmes told Helen that he has found solution to the mystery. So Helen goes to sleep and she hears again the noises. Something started crawling from the safe of the room. It was a deadly snake that Dr. Royllot had put to kill her after she killed her sister. Fortunately there was Sherlock, who attacked the snake with a walking stick. The snake went to the physician’s room and it injected it’s venom in him. When Sherlock entered the room the snake has wound the body of the murderer.
The death of Julia was an accident where the murderer was Dr. Royllot. He had put the deadly snake in the safe so it can kill Julia. He trained it to go after the milk so he had put milk in the bed of Julia. The death of Julia was also connected directly with Dr. Royllot who wanted to kill Helen because she was the only person that wanted to know how her sister died. Moreover Sherlock and Watson solved th...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in my opinion is one of the greatest writers of all time no one can copy him because what he did with Sherlock Holmes is unique and that is why it is so special. Also Sherlock would not be anything without Conan Doyle.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band was one story that I liked a lot but it was too obvious to find who the murderer of Julia was. Although I liked it a lot and saw a clip from the internet like a movie of the book.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery was my favorite from these 2 stories because there was too much mystery and also some information were revealed when John Turner confessed. Although Holmes did not know so many information he deducted the crime.
Lastly the mystery in the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle needs to be included because it makes the reader want to read more when they are “in” the book.
Undoubtedly, William’s suicide had a devastating effect upon Julia. After William’s death, she decided to move out of the Lavender Suite and into the William Lemp Suite across the hall. Also in late 1905, Julia was diagnosed with cancer. Her final weeks were spent in extreme pain. After becoming bedridden, she requested to be moved back into Lavender Suite. I think she wanted to spend her final days in the same room where her beloved husband took his own life. Julia lost her battle with cancer on April 6,
(The adventure of the speckled band) The two also differ in other ways, for example although Holmes is intellectually gifted he lacks the contact of friends, this shows him as a loner. On the other hand, Watson, being the average man, has friends and later in... ... middle of paper ... ... olmes gives us the information that Watson didn’t see and tells us the rest of the case. In my opinion, the best of the Sherlock Holmes stories is The Last
The birth of classic detective fiction was originated just in the mid nineteenth century, and was producing its own genre. Classical detective fiction follows a set of rules called the ‘Ten commandments of detective fiction’. The genre is so popular it can bee seen by the number of sales in any good book stores. Many of these books have been created a long time ago and there is still a demand for these types of books. The popularity is still ongoing because it provides constant entertainment, and also the reader can also have a role of detective trying to solve the crime/case committed. Classical detective fiction has a formula, the detective story starts with a seemingly irresolvable mystery, typically a murder, features the astute, often unconventional detective, a wrongly accused suspect to whom the circumstantial evidence points, and concludes with a startling or unexpected solution to the mystery, during which the detective explains how he or she solved the mystery. Formula that includes certain elements such as, a closed location to keep the number of suspects down, red hearings spread around the stories to keep the reader entertained yet interacted.
are there until we reread the book. By setting up the mystery in this way, Crispin makes his book one that the reader cannot put down. His entire way of introducing the characters, settings and mystery make this a very remarkable book.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is a horror story about revenge and murder that occurred half a century ago. Through the haunting confession of the narrator, Montresor, the reader is able to feel what Fortunato had endured half a century ago. In this tale of revenge and murder the dark, damp, and bone-filled catacombs provide a contrast to life during the “madness of the carnival” (553).
...r Conan Doyle loathed writing Sherlock Holmes. He would write the wrong name for major reoccurring characters and not care if the reasoning in his stories was completely illogical, yet he ironically created his own genre of mystery novels that are recognized even to those who have never read them. Doyle unwillingly created the most insane fanbase that is still alive and thriving today. Doyle’s stories are still popular even eighty-four years after his death because they keep readers enthralled with the story. He wrote war stories based on his own exciting experiences, stories that he believed brought him to the height of his writing capabilities, and stories that sent him crashing back down when a frenzy into Spiritualism crumbled his prestige as a writer. His stories manage to capture the reader’s attention, making them timeless classics in the world of literature.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four novels written about his world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. However, unlike the other books written about Sherlock Holmes, much of The Hound of the Baskervilles is absent of the detective. Instead, the audience is left to work through the mystery of who murdered Mr. Baskerville with Sherlock Holmes’ assistant and friend, as well as the narrator of the novel, Dr. John Watson. There are multiple reasons Doyle may have decided to make Watson the narrator, and to remove Holmes from a large portion of the novel. First, as Holmes is such a dry and clinical person, by making Watson the narrator, Doyle is able to employ more descriptive and entertaining writing. Second,
Crimes around Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s time have been an inspiration to his work, like the case of Jack the Ripper, a serial killer that killed over 5 women in the 1800’s and hasn’t been found and The Whitehall Mystery which was an unsolved case where the police found dismembered remains of women around London. The titles of said cases sound like they would be a title to one of his tales. As a reader of his tales, Doyle is and always will be, remembered as one of the most legendary writers of all time. He brought fear, excitement, love, loyalty, wonderful characters and a horrible crime-filled world to the readers.
Without his career, Conan Doyle had much spare time and decided to write stories as a pass time. These stories he wrote were detective stories with Sherlock Holmes as the main character. Sherlock Holmes had many different skills and abilities. Some of the characteristics he had reflected on the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This pass time, which became partially of a career for him,
Mysteries have always held great fascination for the human mind, not least because of the aura that surrounds them and the realm of the Unknown into which they delve. Coupled with the human propensity of being particularly curious about aspects which elude the average mind, the layer of intrigue that glosses over such puzzles makes for a heady combination of the literary and the popular. In the canon of detective fiction worldwide, no detective has tickled the curious reader’s imagination and held it in thrall as much as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The 221-B, Baker Street, London ‘amateur’ detective combines a rare blend of intellectual prowess and sharp wit to crack a series of baffling riddles.
Doyle knows how to have the reader questioning till the end, by giving clues to the final conclusion and not giving all the inf...
This creates a lot of opportunity for the creators and authors of mystery to manipulate the story. This allows other genres to be added into a mystery story such as crimes and detective. These there genre of mystery, crime, and detective seamlessly blend in with each other making the mystery genre even more impressive. The concepts being so similar are the reason why we are able to have other genre blend in with the mystery genre. The all involve a problem or situation that needs to be solved by usually the main character. They all end up trying to find answers and fit together the pieces, which all just ties back to the mystery
The very essence of any detective story is the mystery. Unlike murder mysteries, which have a lot in common with detective stories, Holmes's problems are not invariably as severe as homicide. These mysteries are not usually insignificant though, and "Often they have to do with theft or murder" (Adventures). The first mystery may be an important and confusing conundrum, but there is often a more worthy case that presents itself after the first has commenced. This adds a level of intrigue to the tale because "The first story leads towards dissolution, the second towards restoring order" (Horsley). In each adventure, someone has been or is in danger of being wronged by another person, and comes to Sherlock for help. This creates "A clear and unambiguous triangle of characters - the investigator, the victim, and the transgressor" (Horsley). All of this is incorporated into the author's puzzle.
The five stories can be split up into two groups by their genre: detective story and gothic horror. The detective stories are The Gold-Bug, The Purloined Letter and “Thou Art the Man”; while the Gothic horrors are The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum.
In the rest of the essay I will analyse the structure of the stories, the social aspects of the stories and the character of Holmes himself. I will use examples and quotes from the stories "The Man With The Twisted Lip," "The Speckled Band," "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," "The Red-Headed League" and "The Noble Bachelor. " In the 19th Century the Victorians views on many things were different. This includes the police force.