Helen's stoner is terrified. Two years ago, her sister died after hearing strange noises

in her room. Now, after moving into her sister's room, Helen is hearing the noises again.

Arthur Conan Doyle, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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This episode of the Classic Tales podcast was originally released on June 22nd, 2007,

along with The Cascua Montiato by Edgar Allan Poe and part one of Barbara of the House of Grebe

by Thomas Hardy. The adventure of the speckled band is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes stories

comprising the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It is one of the 56 short stories in the Sherlock Holmes

canon and hosts many tell-tale signs of the classic detective genre. Doyle himself called it his

best story. It was originally published in the Strand magazine in February 1892.

And now, the adventure of the speckled band by Arthur Conan Doyle.

In glancing over my notes of the 70 odd cases, in which I have, during the last eight years,

studied the methods of my French Sherlock Holmes, I find, in many tragic,

some comic, a large number merely strange but non-common place. For, working as he did rather for

the love of his art, rather for the requirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself

with any investigation which should not tend towards the unusual and even the fantastic.

Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features

than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Royal Arts of Stoke Moran.

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