She immediately comes to the conclusion that her life is in danger. Shortly after she gets engaged to be married herself, Helen hears a whistle late at night for the first time. A few hours before she died, Julia asked her sister if she had ever heard a whistle late at night. The last words which she spoke to Helen concerned a "speckled band". Julia died in agony two weeks before she was due to be married. Following the mysterious death of her twin sister Julia two years earlier, Helen Stoner has become the only person (apart from an old housekeeper) to share the home of her bad tempered stepfather Dr. In the story, a woman named Helen Stoner approaches Sherlock Holmes for help. In August 1905, the story was published, under the title "The Speckled Band", in the New York World newspaper. It would be republished in October of the same year as the eighth of the twelve stories in the anthology The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the February 1892 issue of the magazine The Strand. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Front cover of a 1982 Chinese graphic novel adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".
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