Conan Doyle’s ‘The Speckled Band’ Compared With ‘Visitors’ by Brian Moon This essay will examine both ‘the Speckled Band’ by Conan Doyle and ‘Visitors’ by Brian Moon and will look at how each one conforms to or diverges from the conventions of the detective story and also how each story is representative of the century it was written in by how it presents the woman, the hero and the villain. The conventions of the detective story were mostly established in the early twentieth century yet & ....