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Speckled Band Suspense

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Mystery elements Tension mental or emotional strain; intense, suppressed suspense anxiety, or excitement. The readers feel tension with the mystery elements create suspense in various short stories. Mystery elements create suspense in various short stories.The mystery elements are in the Adventure of the Speckled Band, Lamb to the Slaughter, and an Invitation to a Murder. Mystery elements create suspense in The Adventure of the Speckled Band. To begin with, hidden evidence, many possible suspects, and clues accumulated create suspense in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, by Sur Conan Doyle.Hidden evidence are missing piece of a mystery that seems unimportant. detectives went into Julias room and hunt for clues to how Julia died. There were

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