Holmes, whose intellectual breadth covers many disciplines and fields of study, immediately sees upon entering Roylott's room that the so-called "speckled band" refers not to the gypsies but to the spotted skin of the swamp adder snake coiled upon the doctor's head.. Snakes in Movies The Speckled Band (1931) Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. This short film was made from one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, first published in 1892. After her sister Violet died suddenly by mysterious circumstances.
Read expert analysis on facts in The Adventure of the Speckled Band. The Speckled Band Itself For a much more interesting, creative, scientific and downright weird handling of the topic than you have any right to expect here, go to San Diego Natural History Museum: The Truth About the Speckled Band by Laurence M. Klauber. Holmes diagnosis of the snake leaves a problem; no-one else knows what a Swamp Adder is.