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 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