FREE ESSAY ON SHERLOCK HOLMES THE SPECKLED BAND

SHERLOCK HOLMES THE SPECKLED BAND

The Speckled Band
This story is about a women that asks for 
Shelock Holmes help because she belives that she is going to die like her sister that
died two years before. She belives that her sister was either frightened to death or
killed by gipsies. Because when this woman Helen found her sister the last words the she
sad were: ''Helen! Oh my God, Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!". All this
happend just before Helens sister was suposed to get married. And there mother was also a
rich woman but she died long before all this happend and their stepfather got ?750 a year
from his dead wifes fund. But if the sisters would marry he would have to pay them ?250
each a year so if the girls would marry he wouldn't get all the money!
But now Helen had decided to get married but then a few days later her stepfather decided
to mend the wall of Helens room so that she had to move into her sisters room and now she
was scared for her live. So Sherlock Holmes went to investigate. Holmes investigated the
whole house and he build up a plan to catch the murderer! Holmes had found out that there
was an air-vent that was inside the house between the sisters room and the stepfathers.
Holmes now was in the room that Helen was suposed to be in and suddenly the light was lit
in the stepfathers room, and then Sherlock jumped and hit the bellrobe under the
air-vent. Then there was a little whistle and then a scream and Holmes ran to the other
room and there was the stepfather dead and with a speckled band on him. It was no band it
was a Indian snake that the stepfather used to kill Helens sister and was going to kill
Helen with it to but Holmes saved the day once again 
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