![]() ![]() In a sense, Conan Doyle is able to use the detective genre as a template in which he can engage with other genres. ![]() Roylott's room where they find him dead of the poisonous bite of the speckled band, a snake Dr. Roylott had made Helen move, and then, when he hears the strange whistle, beats at something in a metal grate above the bed. ![]() Holmes hides with Watson in Julia's former room, where Dr. ![]() Helen had just become engaged herself and fears that she will meet a similar fate. Not long after Julia announced her engagement, Helen was awoken in the middle of the night by a strange whistle and a clanging of metal, and then she saw Julia in a terrified state crying something about a "speckled band." By an unknown cause, Julia then died. Grimesby Roylott, had married Helen's mother in India and gained from her a substantial amount of money before her death, after which he moved with Helen and her twin sister Julia to his ancestral home and gave the two girls little opportunity to enjoy the society of others. Helen Stoner begs Holmes for help with a strange situation that gives her cause to fear for her own life at her stepfather's house at Stoke Moran. ![]()
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