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    Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes for help because she fears she will be murdered like her sister Julia. Holmes examines Julia's old room and notices suspicious details like the bed being bolted to the floor. That night, they hear a snake come through the vent and it kills Dr. Roylott, revealing he used a snake to kill his stepdaughters for their inheritance. In another case, King Wilhelm asks Holmes to retrieve compromising photos from opera singer Irene Adler. Holmes tricks his way into her house but she outsmarts him by already marrying another man and leaving the country with the photos.

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    Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes for help because she fears she will be murdered like her sister Julia. Holmes examines Julia's old room and notices suspicious details like the bed being bolted to the floor. That night, they hear a snake come through the vent and it kills Dr. Roylott, revealing he used a snake to kill his stepdaughters for their inheritance. In another case, King Wilhelm asks Holmes to retrieve compromising photos from opera singer Irene Adler. Holmes tricks his way into her house but she outsmarts him by already marrying another man and leaving the country with the photos.

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    Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes for help because she fears she will be murdered like her sister Julia. Holmes examines Julia's old room and notices suspicious details like the bed being bolted to the floor. That night, they hear a snake come through the vent and it kills Dr. Roylott, revealing he used a snake to kill his stepdaughters for their inheritance. In another case, King Wilhelm asks Holmes to retrieve compromising photos from opera singer Irene Adler. Holmes tricks his way into her house but she outsmarts him by already marrying another man and leaving the country with the photos.

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    SHERLOCK HOLMES SHORT STORIES :BY- SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

    PART 1 – THE SPECKLED BAND

    Characters : Sherlock Holmes – Detective


    D r. John Watson - The narrator othese detective stories.
    Helen Stoner - The twin sister of Julia Stoner who comes to seek Holmes help.
    Julia Stoner- The murder victim.
    Doctor Roylott-An unsociable and violent man.
    1. A young woman, Helen Stoner, who fears that she’ll be murdered, pays visit to narrator and
    Holmes in desperate need for their help.
    2. Starts telling about her stepfather , Dr . Roylott, who studied to be a doctor in India where
    he married the widowed Mrs .Stoner
    3. Helen’s mother died and her stepfather shifted along with Helen and her twin sister Julia, all
    of them living in adjacent bedroom
    4. Two years ago her sister got engaged Julia told Helen that she began to hear a low whistling
    sound in the middle of the night .This went on for some time.
    5. Julia said, “It was the band! The speckled band!” and died. Helen was shocked by her
    mysterious death .So she decides to visit Holmes for
    6. Helen was engaged. Renovations begin on the exterior wall next to her bedroom, so Helen is
    forced to move into her sister’s former room.
    7. Helen begins to hear the same low whistling sound that Julia had described to her.
    8. Holmes examines every surface of Julia’s former room and notices that the bed is bolted to
    the floor, a ventilator hole leads into Roylott’s bedroom next door a large metal box near
    the wall and that the bell-pull is fake..
    9. They decided to spend the night in Julia’s room to investigate the case.
    10. They decided to enter the room through the window and told Helen to put a lamp in the
    window indicating that all is quiet in the house as soon as Dr . Roylott falls asleep.
    11. They received the signal from Helen and headed towards the room. They quietly wait until,
    hours later, they see a light coming from the ventilator hole They heard a long hissing sound
    come into their room.
    12 Immediately Holmes jumped up and hit the bell- rope hard. They heard a terrible cry in the
    next room.
    13 They went into D r. Roylott’s room. The metal box was open. They
    14 investigate Roylott’s room and see the doctor sitting on a chair with a snake curled tightly
    around his head.
    15 Roylott died because of snake bite. He explained the whole situation what actually made him
    to think about the snake.
    16 He noticed that there was the milk - and of course, snakes drink milk. It was easy for the
    Doctor to get Indian animals. He knew that this snake's poison is difficult to find in a dead
    body.
    17 So every night he put the snake through the air-vent, and it went down the bell-rope on to
    the bed. The metal box was the snake’s home. Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent
    many times before it killed Julia.
    18 He hit the snake on the rope, it was angry and went back through the air- vent and so it killed
    the doctor. The case was solved.
    PART-2 A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA

    Sherlock Holmes – A private detective.


    D r. John Watson- Narrator
    Wilhelm von Ormstein - King of Bohemia
    Irene Adler- An opera singer
    Godfrey Norton- Lawyer

    1. Sherlock and his friend were talking when he receives a visit from a masked man,
    whom he deduces is actually Wilhelm von Ormstein , the king of Bohemia.
    2. He asks for Holmes’s help retrieving a very valuable set of photographs.
    3. The King is engaged to a Scandinavian princess, but is worried that the princess’s
    family would disapprove of his previous relationship with a young American opera
    singer named Irene Adler.
    4. Adler has evidence of this Relationship ( photographs of two of themtogether ) His
    several attempts to steal it were unsuccessful.
    5. He went to Holmes and luckily he agreed to do his work.
    6. He dressed as an out of work groom and went to Irene Adler’s house and gathers
    valuable information from her workers.
    7. A lawyer named Godfrey Norton soon arrived at Ms. Adler’s house and then they both
    left for St. Monica’s Church, followed by Holmes.
    8. He was swept into the church to witness the marriage of Ms. Adler and Mr. Norton.
    9. Holmes stages a fight with some men on the street and Irene brings him in to tend to
    his injuries.
    10. Once inside, he signals to Watson, who throws a small rocket into the house and yells
    “Fire!”.
    11. Irene runs to a panel in her sitting room to protect the photographs
    12. Holmes observes this, and know knows where the photographs are hidden; he
    informs her that the fire was a false alarm.
    13. As the two men walk back to 221B Baker Street, a young person walks by and says
    “Good-night Mister Sherlock Holmes,” in a voice that is familiar to Holmes.
    14. At Irene Adler’s home, the men find that she has already left England, but has
    addressed a letter to Sherlock.
    15. She congratulates him for tricking her into letting him in her home. She also reveals
    that it was she, dressed as a young man, who greeted him the night before.
    16. She and her new husband ,Mr. Norton, have left England permanently, taking the
    photographs with them.
    17. The King need not worry, however, because she loves her new husband and has no
    desire to impede the King’s royal wedding.
    18. The King is satisfied and offers Sherlock an emerald snake ring as payment. Sherlock
    refuses the ring and instead requests a photo of Irene as a memento of the most
    remarkable womanhe has ever met.

    NAME : AKHILESH CHAUHAN


    ROLL NO: 2007340200006

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