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 Swimmer (short story) The Swimmer (short story) "The Swimmer", a short story by American author John Cheever, was originally published in "The New Yorker" on July 18, 1964, and then in the 1964 short story collection "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow". It was later collected in "The Stories of John Cheever". In 1968 "The Swimmer" was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Burt Lancaster. The story begins with Neddy Merrill lounging at a friend's pool on a warm midsummer day. On a whim, Neddy decides to get home by swimming through all the pools in the neighborhood (which he