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 Moving Finger (short story) The Moving Finger (short story) "The Moving Finger" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in December 1990 in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", and three years later in 1993 was included in King's collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". A very ordinary man named Howard Mitla, who has a strange aptitude for "Jeopardy!", is confronted by the bizarre sight of a human finger poking its way out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink. He tries to deny the reality of what is happening, but the solitary digit eventually proves to be infinitely long