The Adventure Of The Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle
Genre(s): Mystery, Detective Fiction
First publication: The Strand Magazine, February 1892 (as part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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In one of Sherlock Holmes’s most chilling and atmospheric cases, a desperate young woman named Helen Stoner seeks his help after hearing a strange whistle in the night—the same sound that preceded her sister’s mysterious death two years earlier. As Holmes and Watson journey to the eerie Stoke Moran estate, they uncover a twisted web of greed, family secrets, and exotic danger. The Adventure of the Speckled Band showcases Holmes at his finest, piecing together cryptic clues with logic and precision in a race against time to stop a killer hiding in plain sight.