Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band (Dramatized) characters

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A consulting detective in London whose attention to physical detail lets him test apparently impossible stories against practical evidence. Helen Stoner asks him to explain her sister's unexplained death before a similar danger reaches her.

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A doctor, Holmes's friend, and the narrator of the case. He accompanies Holmes to Stoke Moran and keeps watch with him when they attempt to identify the danger threatening Helen Stoner.

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A frightened young woman living at the decaying Stoke Moran estate with her violent stepfather. Her twin sister Julia died there two years earlier after speaking of a whistle and a speckled band; now Helen has been moved into the same bedroom and hears the whistle herself.

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Helen's late twin sister. She died shortly before her planned marriage after several nights of hearing a low whistle, leaving behind only a few mysterious words and no obvious fatal injury.

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Helen and Julia's stepfather, a physically powerful doctor who spent years in India and now lives in reduced circumstances at Stoke Moran. His temper and violence terrify the household, and the sisters' marriages would reduce the income he controls from their mother's estate.