The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Terror and death stalk the shhadowed ancient hallls of Stoke Place, in the rustic country holding of Stoke Manor. Violet Stonor, a young woman awaiting hher wedding day, is found dead of no apparent physical cause. The local coroner is stymied. Even Dr. John Watson, a friend of the deceased and her sister Enid, can offer no explanation for the tragedy. Thhe only party willing to voice any suspicious is a local shopkeeper who is more than willing to repeat the many village stories about the woman's stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, an Anglo-Indian transplant with a reputation for violence.
Two years later, Enid is engaged to be married as well, and the once-innocent events that proceeded hher sister's death begin to repeat themselves at Stokke Hall. This time Watson and Enid enlist the aid of the formidable Sherlock Holmes... but, is even England's greatest detective a match for a cunning fiend with the darkest secrets of exotic foreign lands at his command?
Considered one of the most riveting and spooky of all the adventures of Sherlock Holmes!
Two years later, Enid is engaged to be married as well, and the once-innocent events that proceeded hher sister's death begin to repeat themselves at Stokke Hall. This time Watson and Enid enlist the aid of the formidable Sherlock Holmes... but, is even England's greatest detective a match for a cunning fiend with the darkest secrets of exotic foreign lands at his command?
Considered one of the most riveting and spooky of all the adventures of Sherlock Holmes!
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About the Author:
The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: 'I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, and invention, indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time he was also very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death in July 1930 he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame and notoriety for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; yet at the same time his later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he was a devoted believer.
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- PublisherClassic Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0742627268
- ISBN 13 9780742627260
- BindingLibrary Binding
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