Orinda Starlight Village Players Present The Speckled Band

A young woman named Enid Stoner consults the detective Sherlock Holmes about the suspicious death of her sister, Violet. One night, after conversing with her twin sister about her upcoming wedding day, Violet screamed and came to the hallway where Enid came out to see her, in Violet's dying words she said "it was the band, the speckled band!" iolet had been engaged to be married and, had she lived, would have received an annual £250 annuity from her late mother's income. Now Enid is engaged to be married. Holmes' investigation of the mother's estate reveals that its value has decreased significantly, and if both daughters had married, Dr. Roylott, Enid's ill-tempered and violent stepfather, would be left with very little, while the marriage of even one would be crippling. Therefore, the main suspicion falls on him.