The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Doctors Make the Greatest Criminals

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In the short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Sherlock Holmes comes to the conclusion that "doctors make the greatest criminals". Doctors go through years of studying the human body and know how it works. Doctors know what can harm the human body and what human bodies can withstand. They also know what it would take to put an end to someone's existence. Knowledge, an evil mind and the expertise to destroy evidence, are all that is required to be a proficient criminal. Doctors have several clear advantages to be exceptional criminals. The doctor in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Dr. Roylott, was a high-class criminal. When Roylott was informed that the two Stoner sisters, Helen and Julia, were receiving an inheritance of a large sum of money, he perceived that if the sisters couldn't receive it, he would. Roylott had a plan, and he was determined to get what he wanted. Roylott kept an extremely poisonous snake, and all he had to do was have the snake bite the person he wanted killed. He was intelligent enough to put a bell rope, with no bell, hanging out of a ven...

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