Doctor Gimesby Roylott's The Speckled Band

Roylott knew that the snake could kill someone. When the snake came back towards Dr. Roylott when Sherlock Holmes struck it, Dr. Roylott should have known to step back, as the snake could cause his death. Nevertheless, controlling the lethal snake should have had him gain knowledge on how to halt the snake when it attacked. When the snake was hit and thrown backwards toward Dr. Roylott’s room, Dr. Roylott should have known how to save himself from being bitten. Dr. Roylott trained the snake numerous times, which was shown since the snake needed to know how to pass through the ventilator, as well as slither down the fake bell-rope, towards the victim. Finally, Dr. Roylott had been to India, where he bought the animals. Dr. Roylott had knowledge on how to control the animals since they were living in his home. If they were not trained, they would have been threatening to the household. Sherlock Holmes was not blameworthy for the death of Dr. Roylott.

Dr. Watson provides a foil for Holmes’ character. Watson serves as the important function of a catalyst for Holmes’s mental process. Watson is aware of the private and secretive facts in the case but without being in on the conclusions drawn from them at the right time. His history as an army doctor in Afghanistan provides a respectable comparison to the brilliant

The Adventure of the Speckled Band stars Sherlock Holmes who is a detective who only takes on the most unusual cases, one day a young woman comes to Holmes in need of his help to solve the murder of her twin sister. Holmes is eager and excited to help and begins his investigation upon the discovery of the number one suspect Holmes also finds that this suspect is a doctor. Holmes comes to the conclusion "that doctors make the greatest criminals." This observation by Holmes is something one can completely agree with, for a few examples the first being doctors tend to be intelligent, second doctors are familiar with how the human system works and lastly one should never question the prominent Sherlock Holmes.

This story features a man named Timber who is driving in his car driving home to his bungalow. As he approaches the house he steps inside and realizes how one of the lights are on and just thinks to himself that Harry had forgotten to turn them off or even fell asleep before dawning upon it. As he approaches the room, he notices Harry wide awake with the sense of fear in his eyes. Harry calls upon Timber and tells him that a poisonous snake (called a Krait) had crawled on his stomach and underneath the sheet, while he was lying down in his bed. “”A krait! Oh, my God! Where'd it bite you? How long ago?”” (Dahl 1) The Krait represents the fear that Harry and Timber both feel. Timber knows that the snake is poisonous and could kill Harry at any time. Timber later calls the doctor and the doctor arrives shortly after the call. They decide that they need to get the snake off of Harry’s stomach but they don’t know if the snake will bite Harry before they can get it off of him. The doctor decides to give the antivenom to Harry just in case the snake was to bite when they were trying to get it off of him. They decide that they will try and soak the mattress with chloroform to try and make the snake easier for them to remove without harming Harry or themselves. The doctor and Timber finally decide to lift the sheets off of Harry and as they lift the sheets off to their discovery there was nothing near or on Harry at all. As they look around for the snake Timber and the doctor realize that it's not even there. “”'It's not there!' Ganderbai straightened up and for a moment he too looked at the mattress; then he looked up at Harry.”” (Dahl 4). The trait that was supposed to be there can represent the delusion that Harry was thinking there was a poisonous snake that was on his

In the Sherlock Holmes stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explores mysteries through the eyes of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant. Holmes is able to amaze the people around him with his deductive abilities and can quickly determine aspects of a person’s life by just looking at them. This allows him to solve mysteries that others cannot wrap their heads around. He uses his skill to first help the King of Bohemia recover a picture of him with a former lover. Next, he investigates the disappearance of the Red-Headed League. In both of these mysteries he experiences a unique challenge due to the intelligence of his opponents and the unusual situation surrounding the case. The cunning and cleverness of Holmes, Irene Adler and the conspirators of the Red-Headed League are shown in the stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

As a child, I loved nothing better than relaxing in front of the coal fire naturally engrossed in Sherlock Holmes movies on our monochrome television. Nevertheless, these wonderful stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started my lifelong passion for his juicy murder mysteries. His brilliance, not to mention his dedication to education throughout his lifetime, I admire this fine gentleman. Being an adventurous man and standing up for his unwavering beliefs on spiritualism.

H.H. Holmes’ pathological problems started at the age of eight with him starting to lie. His lies and scams grew along with his age and by the age of 25 he changed his name to H.H. Holmes to elude accusations from those he lied to and scammed. He continued to con and manipulate using his trusting looks and medical degree swindling thousands of dollars from insurance companies by taking cadavers from medical school, taking insurance policies out on them and telling the insurance that he was a family member to collect the money. Holmes was such a pathological liar and has given so many accounts about the number of people he has killed that to this day the true number is unknown. He always needed stimulation and a proneness to boredom, and was conning and very manipulative. He had numerous wives and had promiscuous sexual behavior by having several mistresses.

The snake was trained to kill his step daughters, eliminating one and then his own ¨weapon¨ turned on himself. In The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is investigating a death upon which the owners weapon turned on himself. Sherlock didn't physically kill Roylott, but is consulted of doing which. Although Sherlock knew the snakes were trained to kill humans, he wasn't able to predict which human it decided on killing. Then, unpredictably, the deadly snake turned on Dr Roylott killing him within ten seconds.

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing..” - Herman Webster Mudgett as known as H.H Holmes. It’s safe to say Dr. Mudgett was a bad guy. Either way, he has an interesting story.

Sherlock Holmes was guilty of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott. A conclusion as such can be reach after reviewing and analyzing “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes agitated the swamp adder, which led to it attacking Dr. Roylott. Moreover, Dr. Roylott had no reason to believe that the snake vary from routine, nor that it would attack him. Even more, at the end of the story while explaining his deductions to Watson, Sherlock Holmes admitted that Dr. Roylott’s death would weigh on his conscious. Physically, Sherlock’s action of whacking the swamp adder is what caused Dr. Roylott’s demise.

In the short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band written by Arthur Conan Doyle, the main character, Holmes, makes a statement saying that “doctors make the greatest criminals.” Holmes was correct when saying that statement for several reasons. Doctors know how to use poison and medicines, know vital areas of the body, and are perfectionists.

The best way to find a snake is narrowing its boundaries. Christie uses, “a set boundary; a closed circle. [which] is most famously made up of the inhabitants of some country manor and the residents of small ‘stagnant pool’(Hann 13). The small-town setting displays a closed community where all suspects are accessible and, more importantly, where the killer is unavoidable,

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle created the fictional character, Sherlock Holmes. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh he met Dr. Joseph Bell, who was one of his professors (Trickey). Amazed by Dr. Bell’s ability to detect information about a patient such as how they walked, whether they had tattoos, their accent, physical appearance, and so on Doyle became inspired. As well as being amazingly intuitive, Bell was physically tall, thin, had an angular well-defined face, and very distinctive walk (Trickey). Dr. Joseph Bell was Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes also had a partner named Dr. John Watson. In the words of William L. De Andrea, "Watson also serves the important function of catalyst for Holmes ' mental processes... From the writer 's point of view, Doyle knew the importance of having someone to whom the detective can make enigmatic remarks, a consciousness that 's privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions (“Dr.”)." In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Silver Blaze”, the character of Dr. Watson showcases the strong personality of Sherlock Holmes.

John Steinbeck wrote “The Snake” after witnessing an incident in the Ed Ricketts’s laboratory. If the prologue was not clarified in the introduction, I think I would have not believed “The Snake” was based on true events. The lifestyle of Dr. Phillip is so astonishing and yet hard to believe. In the story, Dr. Phillip was mentioned to “throw off his leather coat and built a fire in the tin stove; he set a kettle of water on the stove and dropped a can of beans into the water. Then he stood staring down at the sack on the floor. He was a slight young man with the mild, preoccupied eyes of one who looks through a microscope a great deal.” Doctor Phillip calmly selects a cat from a cage and kills the animal in the quest of scientific knowledge. Those characteristics that portrayed him isn’t a life of a normal being. The snake that Doctor Phillip owns is described as having “dusty

The snake was to crawl down the rope from the ventilator with the sound of Roylott’s whistle and bite Helen in bed; similar to how he killed Julia. Conversely, foul play was written in the story to distract Sherlock from the facts. The presence of gypsies, papers in Dr. Roylott’s safe, the idea of a band, and many more false clues started Sherlock on the wrong track. Helen Stoner will be left alone in the future, not having to deal with lunatics like her step-father. Sherlock solved the case, this intelligent man solved the family’s continuous problems and proceeded to help the