The Speckled Band (1931 film) Rylott screams. Holmes, Watson, and Helen enter his room and discover Rylott dead from a snake bite. Holmes forces Ali, the servant, to charm the snake so they can put it in the safe. Violet's last words about a "speckled band" were in fact describing "a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India." The venomous snake had been sent to Violet's room by Dr. Rylott to murder her for her inheritance. Rylott had intended to do the same to Helen. The movie ends with Holmes conducting an experiment in Baker Street. Watson arrives dressed for a wedding, and Holmes therefore
The Fat of the Land (short story) the US magazine "This Week" on 2 November 1958, with illustrations by James Williamson. This story was included as the fourth story in the first American edition of the collection "A Few Quick Ones", and the first story featured in the English edition of that collection. "The Fat of the Land" was also included in the 1982 short story collection, "Tales from the Drones Club". The Fat of the Land (short story) "The Fat of the Land" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The story is part of the Drones Club canon. First published in