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 Machine That Won the War (short story) The Machine That Won the War (short story) "The Machine That Won the War" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the collections "Nightfall and Other Stories" (1969) and "Robot Dreams" (1986). It was also printed in a contemporary edition of Reader's Digest, illustrated. It is one of a loosely connected series of such stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. Three influential leaders of the human race meet in the aftermath of a successful war against