Suspense In Dahl's Adventure Of The Speckled Band

Suspense is featured when the reader is uncertain about what’s going to happen next. Suspense leaves the readers feeling curious as it is the most intense and exciting point of the short story. ‘Adventure of the Speckled Band’ created suspense when Dahl describes the room. ‘On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar’. By doing this, Dahl hopes to create a picture in the reader’s mind of the room where the event occurs. As the story continues, Holmes whispers ‘The band! The speckled band!’ ‘I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed