#acd band

[clearwingedmaven]

On the next installment of "man, Sidney Paget had bills due," I still realize all of the Sherlock Holmes illustrations are either "Oh, casual meetings or talking on the train," or, "Goes weirdly hard."

We find the latter, again.

The top two I wanted to focus on, as they are both from the Abbey Grange.

I think we all know the bottom image: from the Adventure of the Speckled Band.

Just... compared to most of the illustrations, again, these go strangely hard.

[rknchan]

i promised you to share some illustrations from this book

here comes the speckled band !!!

(there are also the musgrave ritual, the man with a twisted lip, the final problem & the empty house ... i'll post them some day too)

[friday411]

Sorry I'm late, here's a new one - the one with the poker...

"Just what am I supposed to do? The police just don't have a clue. But a whistle at night Made my sis die of fright So that's why I'm coming to you."

-=<+>=-

"Miss Stoner, you're right to be scared. We'll come on down and be prepared To wait in the shadows For whatever follows. Just leave it to us." Holmes declared.

-=<+>=-

Grimsby Roylett his daughter did track And came to Holmes on the attack. "You'll see I'm no Joker!" (Then bent their poker) But when he leaves, Holmes just bends it back.

-=<+>=-

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[what-thisiscrazzzy]

“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it’s the common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

Sherlock Holmes to Dr. John Watson, The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Putting this beside ACD’s love of the word ‘ejaculated’ for my favourite unfortunately aged words/phrases

[orchestratedsketches]

Mr. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes 🫶🏼

Vine charcoal on BFK Rives paper for Art 102

Planning to actually do his entire face but maybe over winter break lol, this took way too long

Reference from The Speckled Band episode :>

[jazzandpizazz]

“Goodbye, and good luck, and believe me to be, my dear fellow,

very sincerely yours.”

[annaleigh]

“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, as a two page spread for class!

[dathen]

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

Fucking love that ACD was like “yes I’m a doctor, and you should be SO glad I’m not evil, because I could kill so many of you if I wanted ^_^”

[the-ultimate-junkyard]

I'm seeing a pattern here...

[lumilescense]

Me: all the holmes novels except the hound of the baskervilles are kinda shit

My dad: that was actually my least favorite one

Me: what was your favorite?

My dad: the sign of four

[clearwingedmaven]

Okay, okay. There's also a second short story that I could ramble about at length, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band."

Well, yes, it is the prime example(or one of them) of a Locked Room Mystery, and it's so deeply terrifying of a premise(what could have killed a woman locked up tight in her room, leaving her screaming only about a speckled band?)

It also really gets to showcase more vulnerabilities and emotions from both Holmes and Watson. And still gets one thinking.

Thanks in part to the Granada adaptation(yet again, they're quite fabulous in terms of 1:1 adaptations), you actually get to see Holmes go through a whirlwind of emotions. This mystery is intriguing, and why wouldn't it be, how can someone die in a locked up room, so the excitement is always somewhere under the surface.

And yet, and my favorite parts, it immediately flips when Holmes reveals Helen Stoner is being abused by Roylott. There's quite a noticeable increase in tension, and Holmes describes it in the book as,

"You are being cruely used." Cruely is a strong term at this point, and for a "reformed misogynist", this is remarkable progress for him.

And yet, it also raises questions. This was after A Scandal in Bohemia, so did the Woman come back into mind at the signs of abuse? Has he gotten cases before where there is, evidence of abuse in times where it was commonplace and called it out as an evil?

The confrontation with Roylott is brilliant too, as he's gotten the measure of the man willing to chase down his stepdaughter, bruise her, and threaten Holmes in his home. It'd be all too easy to make mention that Helen was there, but no, he keeps her secrets.

It ties really well into the Five Orange Pips, where you see that Holmes can be so loyal towards his clients in both instances. He's willing to risk himself being hurt by Roylott, so that Helen can at least escape untraced and unharmed.

And it stays that way through the story. Holmes is able to recognize that this is, an incredible danger, and takes her place in the chambers where she would have been killed, and where Julia died before.

Striking the... "Indian Swamp Adder" to where it goes back and kills Roylott? Cherry on top. He's already admitted he's hesitated to bring Watson along, so he goes after the thing that killed Julia almost immediately(so it wouldn't kill again)... and has no problems once again, expressing his distaste for a vile, vile man.

And it's brilliant.

[rknchan]

SHITPOST TIMEEEEEEE

[friday411]

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

At Stoke Moran, something's not right. A whistle was heard in the night. An ominous omen For a desperate woman Who's sister dropped dead from sheer fright!

-=<🐍>=-

Helen's money and life were at stake Everthing her step-father would take But his scheme backfired Because Holmes was hired He was killed by his very own snake!

-=<+>=-

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[what-thisiscrazzzy]

This entire exchange is very funny but Holmes’ responses are gold

I’m too tired to write them out like I usually do. And I can’t remember if I posted it before but god I love him he’s so funny and he knows it.

[sarnie-for-varney]

They totally banged after this.

[worst-sherlockholmes-story]

vote for the WORSE story!

The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Holmes is contacted by a young woman, Helen, who fears her stepfather wishes to kill her. Her sister died two years ago before she could be married. Helen is now about to marry and has been moved into the room her sister died in. Holmes deduces that the women's stepfather sent a venomous snake through an adjoining vent to prevent them from taking the portion of Helen's mother's inheritance that was to be given to the women when they married.

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: Holmes is contacted by a young woman who has been offered a position as a governess with strange stipulations about how she should appear. Holmes deduces that the governess is unknowingly pretending to be the daughter of the man who hired her. The daughter was locked in the attic because she had been about to elope and take part of her inheritance that her father had previously been allowed.