Helen doesn't trust Dr. Roylott—and with good reason, too. She suspects that her wicked stepfather's after her inheritance. Just before her sister was due to be married, she died in mysterious circumstances in her bedroom at Stoke Moran. Had she gone ahead with her marriage, Roylott would've lost control of his stepdaughter's inheritance, and so he had her killed. Having only recently announced her own engagement, it's clear to Helen that Roylott plans a similar fate for her.
Although Helen is pretty sure that Roylott murdered her sister and plans to murder her in a similar fashion, she's unsure of precisely how he carried out his dastardly deed. That's why she does the right thing by going off to consult Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, to get to the bottom of this whole sorry business.
Helen believes the real reason for the repairs to Stoke Moran is to allow her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, to murder her.
As Helen recounts to Holmes when she goes to visit him, her sister died under mysterious circumstances two years ago, shortly after she had become engaged to be married. Now, because of the repairs to the house, Helen has been forced to move into her sister's old bedroom and even sleep in the same bed. She also has heard the strange whistling sound that her sister heard for some nights in a row before she died. She fears that whatever killed her sister will kill her, especially as she is now engaged to be married, just as her sister was.
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