Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Summary

THE SPECKLED BAND

Very early one morning, a young woman, went to see to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She looked tired and unhappy, “I’m afraid, afraid of death Mr. Holmes!” she cried. She wasn’t thirty yet and she had grey hair. “Just sit down and tell us your story”, said Holmes kindly. She said her name was Helen Stoner and she lived with her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. She saidhis father was dead, and his stepfather killed his servant in India, then his mother died in an accident eight years ago and her stepfather got all her mother’s money but if Helen or her sister married, he must pay € 250 every year. She said also her stepfather was more and more violent and everybody was afraid of him, his Indian wild animals and the gipsies that ran freely around the garden. Shewent on and said her sister Julia died when she was only thirty and her hair was already grey like her. She narrated all story about how her sister died and what her sister said just before died. Helen said she could hear a strange whistle and the sound of falling metal and also said her sister talked about a speckled band. Helen told was going to get married soon, but she just had to move to hersister’s room and one night ago she heard the strange whistle again. After hear this, Holmes decided to go to Dr. Roylott’s house. In Dr. Roylott’s house, Helen showed to Holmes and Watson the three bedrooms, but Holmes got strange a bell-rope, that was right above Julia’s bed and doesn’t worked, and the air-vent that was in the wall between Julia’s and Dr. Roylott’s bedrooms. Then they went toDr. Roylott’s room and there was a large metal box near the wall with a plate with milk on box’s top. After see this, Holmes decided that Watson and He were going to spend the night in Helen’s room. A light would be the signal for Holmes and Watson to know when Dr Roylott is in your room and Helen in the other room, so this night they wait for the signal and when they so the light went inside theroom carefully. They waited silently in the dark on the bedroom, and suddenly Holmes jumped and hit the bell-rope, after this they heard a whistle and a terrible cry, they went to Dr. Roylott’s room and there was Dr. Roylott sat on a chair with his eyes fixed on the air-vent and with a yellow speckled band around his head. The band was an Indian snake and he was died. So, everything was clear atthis time, Dr. Roylott put the snake in the air-vent, this went through it and went down by the bell-rope until the bed. That was like Julia died, this snake’s poison is difficult to find in a dead body so nobody will know how she died, and now he wanted to do the same with Helen. Soon Helen married but she never forgot the speckled band.

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA

One day Watson went to Holmes’house, and when he arrived, Holmes showed him a letter saying that at night someone was going to visit him and he had to help this person so he had to be in his bedroom at 7:45 PM. At this time, there was a knock on the door; there was a tall and strong man, in expensive clothes and he wore a mask, he said that a very important person who belongs to a royal family sent him for talk about a business.He tried to hide who he was, but Homes busted him and knew he was Wilhelm vor Ormstein, king of Bohemia. He told to Holmes and Watson about Irene Adler, and old girlfriend that he left but he let her some letters, and he knew she had a shot with him, so he wanted to get it back because he was going to get married with Clotilde Lothman, he tried to get the shot around ​5 times but he couldn’t. Theking gave Holmes a bag with one thousand punds and after this he left. The next day Watson went to Holmes’ house but he wasn’t there, Watson waited about one hour and then Holmes came back looking like a servant, and he told to Watson about what he was doing. He went to Irene’s house and there was Godfrey Norton, Irene’s friend, and then Godfrey went out and took a taxi and went to Santa...