Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Speckled Band

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1892

Narrated by Simon Vance

This story is taking place in 1883.

Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend and assistant Dr. John Watson is getting a visit from a young woman called Helen Stoner. Helen´s twin sister Julia has been murder on the night before her wedding. Helen and Julia were talking about the upcoming wedding. When Helen was on her way back to her own bedroom, Julia came out of her room screaming. Before she died she said to her sister: “it was the band, the speckled band!” Helen is living with her old and violent stepfather Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Holmes founds that if both the sisters were getting married they would received a large number of money from their mother income, and they also learned that if the two sisters gets married then Dr. Roylott would be left with very little, and therefore Holmes is falling the main suspicion on him. One night Holmes and Watson are later in the house were the murder of Julia Stoner were, and finds a strange bell cord over the bed. In Dr. Roylott´s workroom they see a big collection of exotic animals from India.

I think that this short story was very exciting, and Simon Vance’s voice was great for the story. The short story is round 50 minutes long. I give the book 4/5 points