Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

 This book has 3 short stories in it so, I’ll introduce one of them. The title is “The Speckled Band”.

 One very early morning, a lady comes running to see us. This lady was in her thirties but she had grey hair. She explains that her sister died 2 years ago. She says, one night they were getting ready for bed then, her sister asked if she hears a whistle at midnight. The lady says she doesn’t hear anything and they go to bed in their separate rooms. That night her sister dies but nobody knew how she died. The lady is afraid that she might die or get killed so Holmes says he’ll got o the house and look for clues. He finds clues and in the end he find out what killed her sister.

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