»The Adventure of the Speckled Band« is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, about the brilliant Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published i

"It was the band. The speckled band!" After her sister Julia dies suddenly, Helen Stoner worries that she is the killer's next target. With her last words, Juli

In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense

Sherlock Holmes is thought to be dead, murdered by his enemy Moriarty, but turns up alive to solve a puzzling murder.

When Ms. Stoner comes to Sherlock Holmes with a strange story that a mysterious whistle caused her sister's death, Holmes is ready to take on the case. After ex