Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band

A young woman named Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes to tell him that her engaged sister Julia was murdered last night. She was to receive her mother’s large income after the marriage, but her step father would receive less. When Helen went to sleep the night before she heard her sister scream and when Helen rushed into her sisters room Julia was about to die and her last words were “it was a band, the speckled band”. Helen tells Holmes that her step father moved her into a room isolated from the other the night she died. Deep into the night Helen explains she hears eerie sounds like metals banging and whistling sounds. Helen thinks that her sister was murdered by a gypsy that lives outside their house, since the gypsies wear speckled bands around their necks. That night Holmes tells Helen to sleep at her friend’s house so Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson could solve the mystery. After hours spent in the room Holmes discovers a snake in the air vent above his head. It was a Poisonous speckled band snake Helens step father had put in the air vent to kill her and receive her dead mother’s whole income. The sound of metals banging was her step father putting the snake in the air vent and low whistling sound was used to call the snake back after it bit its victim