The Adventure of the Speckled Band that of Dr Roylott. Holmes and Watson arrange to spend the night in Helen's room. In darkness they wait; suddenly, a slight metallic noise and a dim light through the ventilator prompt Holmes to action. Quickly lighting a candle, he discovers on the bell cord the "speckled band"—a venomous snake. He strikes the snake with a stick, driving it back through the ventilator. Agitated, it attacks Roylott, who had been waiting for it to return after killing Helen. Holmes identifies the snake as a "swamp adder" and reveals to Watson the motive: the late wife's will had provided an annual
The Purity of the Turf (short story) part of the series "What Ho! Jeeves" starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster. The Purity of the Turf (short story) "The Purity of the Turf" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in "The Strand Magazine" in London in July 1922, and then in "Cosmopolitan" in New York that same month. The story was also included in the 1923 collection "The Inimitable Jeeves". The story features a school fair, where Bertie, Bertie's friend Bingo Little, and Jeeves form a