Chapter 667: The Case of the Spotted Belt

The chamber of ​​locks is a word closely related to reasoning.

And "The Case of the Spotted Belt" is considered by many people to be the most classic chamber murder case designed by Conan Doyle. The audience is wider than the previous "Red-Headed League". This story has been adapted into film and television dramas many times, which shows how popular it is.

What's more interesting is that "The Spotted Belt" was also selected as a textbook.

Luoyang remembered that it was probably the English elective 10 of the third grade of senior high school in the previous life. In addition, when Luoyang was doing English cloze test, he had encountered excerpts from "The Spotted Belt" and "The Man with a Crooked Lip". Both of them are from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".

In fact, as a short mystery novel, the story of "The Spotted Belt" is not complicated-

One morning, a female client named Helen Stoner found Holmes.

She panicked and narrated some of her horrible experiences, and invited Holmes to help her solve the case.

It turns out that the client had an older sister. After their biological father died, their mother married their current stepfather, who had a bad temper. Later, their mother also died, and the sisters and their stepfather continued to move to the previous house.

It was a late night a few years ago...

The elder sister unfortunately died in her room before getting married, and her last words were a puzzling sentence: spotted belt.

On the day before her death, when chatting with her younger sister, she asked her younger sister in a slightly strange way whether she had heard a whistle.

The younger sister said that she didn't hear it, and now, the younger sister is about to get married, but the night before, she actually heard the strange whistle that her sister had mentioned when she was sleeping in her sister's room, and she couldn't help but feel particularly scared--

So the next day she immediately went to the city to find Holmes.

The next is the story of Holmes and Watson coming to the client's house to investigate and later uncovering the truth.

As the short story most loved by Conan Doyle himself and the readers, "The Speckled Belt" has its own unique features. Luoyang clearly remembers that he was still a high school student when he first read "The Speckled Belt".

He read it during the break.

After reading it, he felt that "The Speckled Belt" was very ordinary and a bit overrated.

The content of the work is ordinary, but it is very famous. This example is actually quite common. Luoyang thought that "The Speckled Belt" is also such a work.

But in the next Chinese class, Luoyang found that he could not help but recall the plot of "The Speckled Belt". When it was night, he couldn't get rid of the picture of the venomous snake entering the secret room before going to bed...

A little panic, a little fear.

This feeling is similar to the feeling that "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" gave Luoyang.

As a famous ancient work, "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is known as the culmination of Chinese classical novels and the king of short stories. Its characteristic is that it looks ordinary at first glance, and even after reading it, you will feel that it is just so-so, but it is extremely profound when you recall it.

Then Luoyang gradually fell in love with the well-known "The Spotted Belt".

What's more interesting is that Luoyang's deskmate also read "The Spotted Belt" at that time. After reading it, he asked Luoyang:

"It's really strange. I think there seems to be something special about "The Spotted Belt" that is particularly attractive. I don't like to read suspenseful and thrilling content, and some other articles are as suspenseful and thrilling as this one, but I think this one seems to be particularly attractive. What's the matter?"

Luoyang, who was full of interest in all kinds of literature at that time, expressed his feelings.

He explained it this way: "Because this story grasps the core points of the secret room, various foreshadowings and hints emerge in an endless stream, and the atmosphere is very sophisticated. In the end, the snake man died in the mouth of his own venomous snake, which is in line with the readers' expectations."

Of course, the ending of this story also shows the tough side of Holmes' character.

At the end of this story, Old Ford calmly said to Watson: "My whipping aroused the nature of the venomous snake, so it bit the first person it saw. In this way, I am undoubtedly indirectly responsible for the death of Dr. Grimsby Roylott. In all conscience, I don't feel guilty about it."

I should be indirectly responsible for his death, but in all conscience, I don't feel guilty about it!

It must be admitted that many people feel secretly happy when they see Old Ford say this. This is the strong side of Holmes' character. As an excellent detective, Holmes' personality charm is infinite.

And when recalling the plot of "The Speckled Band".

Luoyang is also typing out these plots word by word.

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[For eight years, I have studied my friend Sherlock Holmes's method of solving cases and recorded more than seventy cases.

I have skimmed through the records of these cases, and have found many tragic, some comic, a good many merely bizarre, but none ordinary.

This is because he did his work not so much for the reward as for the love of his craft. He never cared about any case except that which seemed unique or even bordering on the absurd, and refused to take part in any investigation. ]

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Same as the previous stories.

It is still from Watson's perspective.

Now, with the vigorous development of the World Reasoning Competition, the impact is getting bigger and bigger.

As a matter of course, the Holmes written by Luoyang has easily become popular all over the world. After all, participating in the World Reasoning Competition with a series of works is a very cool thing, and now defeating opponents one after another has shrouded Holmes with an invincible aura.

In this case, Holmes' good friend Watson naturally became popular.

After all, "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", and "The Red-Headed Society" are all developed from Watson's perspective, and it is obvious that Holmes and Watson have a good relationship, which makes many readers start to discuss the relationship between Watson and Holmes-

Of course, because the story of Holmes has only been published in three parts.

This discussion is only carried out in a small range, not as vigorous as in the previous life, or it can be said that it is not the time yet.

Time passed by bit by bit, Luoyang had been writing "The Spotted Belt". This kind of high-intensity typing was already commonplace for him, but when he was halfway through, suddenly...