Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even more terrible than the truth. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the death of Dr. It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!
© 2020 Bookstream Audiobooks (Luisterboek): 9783991153993The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. The play, originally called The Stonor Case, differs from the story in several details, such as the names of some of the characters. Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes and Lyn Harding as Dr. It premiered at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 4 June 1910, with H. Doyle wrote and produced a play based on the story. Doyle later revealed that he thought this was his best Holmes story. It was published under the different title "The Spotted Band" in New York World in August 1905. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in February 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. It is one of four Sherlock Holmes stories that can be classified as a locked room mystery. It is the eighth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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