Book Report

The Speckled Band

This book was written by Sir Artur Connan Doyle, in this book he retails a lot of unsolved cases which he solved with the help of his best friend Watson.

The Speckled Band story retail us how a youn woman called Helen Stoner goes to visit to Holmes looking for help. She lives in a big house with her stepfather because her mother and sister died a time ago. But now she is worry about herself because the last days her stepfather`s behavior has been strange.

Holmes looks very interested in the case, so he asked to Helen about her sister`s death. Helen says that her sister was about to get marry and that both of them ( Helen and her sister) should recive a part of the money that her mother left when she died, but Helens said that a few days before wedding her sister died in a very strange way and the last words that she told were "it was the Speckled band!".

After hear all the story Holmes and Watson went to Helens house just to see what was happening. Holmes was very impressed about what he found inside the bedrooms: there were a ventilator, and a useless bell-rope!!!. So Holmes told to Helen that she would stay that nigth in her room meanwhile Holmes and Whatson stay in Helen`s sister room quiet in the darkness waiting for something......

Suddenly they heard a terrible noice, it comes from Roylott`s room (helen`s stepfather), Holmes went to see what was happening and he saw that Roylott was sitting in a chair, helding in his hands a lenght of rope and around his neck there was a snake!!!!!


So that`s the way that they discovered how Roylott`s had killed t his daugther without been discovered.

This chapter was very interesting because at the begining of the case maybe I could imagine that Roylott was the murderer but there were a lot of things that made the case unsolved and completely misterious. I really liked that way that the author of the book retails the stories, because at the time that Holmes and Whatson are looking for clues and trying to solve the problem, you are making your own conclussiòns in your head and sometimes I would like to be with them ad help them to solve the case.