Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator. Holmes attacks the snake with his riding crop; it retreats to the next room, where it attacks and kills Stoner's stepfather.
A Study in Scarlet (Part 2: The Country of the Saints)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookA Study in Scarlet (Part 1: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookbookThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookbookThe Valley of Fear : A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Hound of the Baskervilles : A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Valley of Fear : A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Valley of Fear (Part 2: The Scowrers)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Valley of Fear (Part 1: The Tragedy of Birlstone)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
audiobook