The Adventure of the Speckled Band the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ("Heloderma suspectum") and "Naja naja". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was "It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India"; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was "It is a "samp-aderm", the deadliest skink in India." "Samp-aderm" can be translated "snake-Gila-monster": "Samp" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix "aderm" is derived from "heloderm", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by
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