Saffi does Sherlock: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

By Saffina Desforges

The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of the most famous short stories of the Sherlock Holmes adventures written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A young woman named Helen Stoner employs Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in foiling the villainous plans of her stepfather, Grimesby Roylott.

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This is a retelling of the Sherlock Holmes classic, in modern English, for modern schoolkids who want to read the Conan Doyle stories but find the originals a little too heavy going.

SAFFI does SHERLOCK

• Language: English
• Publisher: Saffina Desforges
• Release date: Oct 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781908961563

Saffina Desforges

Since 2011, Saffina Desforges has sold close to a million titles. The following books are available: Crime *Snow White *Rapunzel *Ring-a-ring O'Roses *The Night before Christmas *Rose Red crime thriller box-set Young Adult *Saffi does Sherlock (YA Sherlock Holmes series) *Indigo Kids - Books One and Two - Awakenings and Paragon. (YA Fantasy/paranormal series) Coming soon... *Beauty & the Beast (Book 3 of the Rose Red Crime thriller series) *First Blood (Book One - Equilibrium - Adult Fantasy trilogy) Contact: [e-mail] Represented by Broo Doherty @ DHH Literary Agency, London. Coming soon ~ (writing as Stevie Jordan) TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE (forthcoming WONDERLAND crime thriller series) & DRAWER SEVEN. Contact: [e-mail]

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The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

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The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.

     Very sorry to knock you up, Watson, said he, but it's the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she in turn woke me, and now I you.

     What is it, then -- a fire?

     No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should call you and give you the chance.

My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything.

I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered.

     Good-morning, madam, said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good