![]() ![]() Sending Helen Stoner Home – Helen Stoner is worried that her stepfather will be angry with her when they are both back home after their separate visits to Baker Street. Going on with my article before you’ve read the story will truly ruin one of the Canon’s best known tales. You can read it online here, with illustrations. If you haven’t read this story yet, take fifteen minutes and do so. ![]() There are several questionable aspects that leave one to wonder at Holmes’ actions: However, it also appears to be one of the most poorly handled the world’s first private consulting detective. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself put it at number one on his own list in 1927. It is often cited as a favorite Holmes case by fans of the great detective. “The Speckled Band,” the eighth of the short stories which make up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in the Strand Magazine in February, 1892. Don’t you dare to meddle with my affairs…” ![]()
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