Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

In the Adventure of the Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes' character is not as common as any investigator in life. He reveals an intelligence and cleverness personality. His qualities are shown in different ways through the story. One way is when he meets his client Helena Stoner. Other actions that show his characteristics are when he investigates Helena's bedroom and the inspection of Dr. Grimesby Roylott's room, her stepfather.

At the beginning of the story, Holmes meets a client named Helena Stoner who is looking for his help because she wants him to solve the crime of her twin Julia. He begins revealing his qualities. For example, when Holmes meets Helena Stoner, he observed a pitiful appearance and a half of a return ticket in the palm of her left glove. This brought attention to Holmes because for him that means that she had passed through some unfortunate events and that she has to return to the same place that she left. For a typical and common person, spattered mud on the left arm of a jacket don't mean too much; for Holmes the mud on the jacket of Mrs. Stoner revealed an event that might occurred to her. From that, he deducts that those mud marks comes from a dog-car that throws up mud on that direction, and that could only happened if she were sitting on the left-hand side of the driver.

After knowing that he needs to solve the mysterious crime of Julia, Helena's twin, he came out with an idea that will help him to discover the reason of Julia's death. His first intuition for trying to resolve the case was to go and investigate Julia's room, which now is Helena's room. Right after he entered into the room, Holmes noticed odd things. He saw that the bed was clamped to the floor but that wasn't so absurd than other things that he noticed while he was observing. The first really strange thing was the bell rope hanging down beside the bed, actually lying upon the pillow. Holmes took the bell rope in his hand and pulled it. What he discovered was that the bell rope didn't produce a sound and that was hanging to the other side of Dr. Roylott's room through a ventilation opening, for Holmes that was very strange. Anyways, rare things are anywhere, but a ventilator that supposedly ventilates two bedrooms and doesn't work?