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The Red-Headed League
In this detective mystery short story, the author uses a number of literary devices to add interest to the narrative. (The following deals with elements of storytelling rather than devices an...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes and Watson visit Jabez Wilson's pawnshop in Coburg Square as part of their investigation into the mysterious business of the Red-Headed League. After walking up and down the row of houses in...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson is offered four pounds a week for twenty hours sitting in an office copying out the Encyclopedia Brittanica. This doesn't sound like much money, but I ran this amount through the Bank...
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The Red-Headed League
Near the end of the story, Holmes and Mr. Jones of Scotland Yard lay in wait to see who will come through the hole in the wall. First, a small man with a "clean-cut" and "boyish" face comes...
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The Red-Headed League
When Mr. Wilson is offered the job by the Red-Headed League, he is told he must not, under any circumstances, leave the office during his working hours. He must remain glued to his desk the entire...
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The Red-Headed League
As he later explains to Watson, Sherlock Holmes realized right away that the job at the Red-Headed League was merely a ruse to get Jabez Wilson out of the pawn shop. Holmes knows that Spaulding...
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The Red-Headed League
Sherlock Holmes figures out that there is a plan to access the bank by tunnel and steal a large amount of gold bullion. With Watson and the bank's director, he waits in the bank cellar for the...
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The Red-Headed League
The statement is false. John Clay does not want to steal the crown jewels from the bank—he wants to rob the City and Suburban Bank of gold coins. To do this, Clay, a criminal mastermind, works out...
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The Red-Headed League
There are a number of themes which emerge in "The Red-Headed League." One of the most striking of these themes is best summarised as the bizarre and unusual in everyday life. This theme appears at...
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The Red-Headed League
As always when examining the meaning of a particular quotation, it's important to look at the context. In this case, Sherlock Holmes uses his amazing powers of deduction to conclude that Jabez...
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The Red-Headed League
The best answer for why Mr. Wilson hired Vincent Spaulding is that he was handy and cheap: C. As Mr. Wilson explains to Sherlock Holmes: he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the...
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The Red-Headed League
A notorious criminal named John Clay is plotting to loot the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank's underground strongroom of 30,000 French gold coins worth 30,000 British pounds. Just...
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The Red-Headed League
The story "The Red Headed League" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery. The plot involves one of Holmes' famous challenges in trying to ascertain why a red-headed man was hired to copy the Encyclopedia...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson is a pawnbroker. He explains his occupation and his unusual problem to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at Holmes' lodging in Baker Street. "I have a small pawnbroker's business at...
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The Red-Headed League
When Watson comes to visit his friend Sherlock Holmes and meets Jabez Wilson for the first time, Watson amuses himself by trying to make deductions about Wilson in imitation of Holmes. But Watson...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes had two objectives in going to Jabez Wilson's pawnshop. He wanted to take a look at Wilson's assistant and he wanted to examine the neighborhood. Holmes gets to look at the assistant who...
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The Red-Headed League
Mr. Wilson failed to recognize that it was his assistant, whom he had only known for three months, who introduced him to the "job", pushed him through the crowd to the front of the line, and got...
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The Red-Headed League
Sherlock Holmes uses his famous "method" of picking up on tiny clues, usually of appearance, to make far-reaching correct deductions about people. With Jabez Wilson, Holmes is able to make a very...
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The Red-Headed League
"The Red-Headed League" is a fairly typical Sherlock Holmes tale in which the narrator, Dr. Watson, sees everything the great detective sees but does not understand his friend's deductions,...
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The Red-Headed League
Mr. Jabez Wilson consults Sherlock Holmes for the purpose of solving the mystery of his sudden loss of employment with the Red-Headed League. Accordingly, Wilson is a pawnbroker at Saxe-Coburg...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson, Holmes’s vividly red-headed client in this story, has an extraordinary tale to tell about the Red-Headed League which is apparently an organization that sets red-headed men like...
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The Red-Headed League
In "The Red-Headed League," Mr. Wilson comes to Mr. Holmes for help, as he feels he has lost out on a very good job due to mysterious circumstances. Mr. Wilson tells Holmes and Watson that he had...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson is the person who initially comes to Sherlock Holmes as a client in "The Red-Headed League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He himself has red hair. His assistant, Vincent Spaulding,...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes uses deduction and footwork to solve the mystery of the Red-Headed League. At first, it does not seem as though a crime has been committed at all. The League is so ridiculous, though, that...
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The Red-Headed League
The key events of the story, in chronological order, are as follows: The City and Suburban Bank gets a shipment of 30,000 gold napoleons. John Clay interviews for a job as assistant to Jabez Wilson...
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The Red-Headed League
The presenting problem in "The Red-Headed League" is brought to Sherlock Holmes by Jabez Wilson, who tells him and Watson a long story about how he became involved with the Red-Headed League and...
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The Red-Headed League
Vincent Spaulding wants to get Mr. Wilson out of the way for a few hours a day so he can use the basement of his shop to tunnel into the bank next door. Vincent Spaulding’s real name is John Clay....
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson came to consult Sherlock Holmes because he had heard that the detective would sometimes help people for nothing if their cases interested him. After telling his story, Wilson says: "I...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes uses the above skills to solve the mystery quickly and efficiently. His astute nature leads him to conclude that Wilson is motivated by money, and has been targeted by the criminals using...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes is extremely interested in "all that is bizarre" or unusual. The nature of this case and its clues are definitely unique, so the interest of Holmes and Watson is peaked. Because...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson loves money. It is appropriate that he is a pawn broker because, like a banker, he lends money for interest. He was very pleased with his job at the offices of the Red-Headed League...
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The Red-Headed League
At the beginning of the story Holmes tells Watson: “Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China,...
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The Red-Headed League
When Holmes sets a trap for John Clay and is waiting in the bank's basement strongroom for him to emerge through the flooring, the reader is shown the prize the notorious criminal is after. Mr....
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The Red-Headed League
This question is easy to answer because Sherlock Holmes explains his whole line of thinking to his friend Dr. Watson at the end of the story, after the burglars have been arrested and the two men...
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The Red-Headed League
At the beginning of "The Red-Headed League," Holmes displays a positive and enthusiastic outlook on life. He speaks "cordially" to Watson, for example, and he refers to the narrative of his...
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The Red-Headed League
The answer to your question can be found in detail in the last few pages of the story. It is characteristic of many of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes that the master...
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The Red-Headed League
Sherlock Holmes is methodical because he uses evidence he collects to make deductions about the case. He solves the case by observing, and determining the answer from what he observes. Watson is...
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The Red-Headed League
Onomatopoeia refers to the formation of words that imitate sounds. Good examples include "cuckoo," "sizzle," and "bang." You will often hear people referring to the "clinking" of glasses when they...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes is interested in the case of the Red-headed League because it is funny, and because it is interesting. He knows that someone is planning something, and he wants to find out what. I really...
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The Red-Headed League
At first glance, it might appear that the protagonist of "The Red-Headed League" is Jabez Wilson because this red-haired man is the victim of a strange conspiracy. But, on closer inspection, the...
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The Red-Headed League
As is true with all the Sherlock Holmes stories, the narrator is Holmes's close friend, Dr. John Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle established the premise that Watson assisted Holmes with his cases...
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The Red-Headed League
The three clues that lead Holmes to conclude who Spalding's real identity is are: Appearance: short, stout, quick, and no facial hair There is a white splash of acid on his forehead Pierced ears...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes says the following:"As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson tells Sherlock Holmes a long back-story in connection with his request to have the detective help him regain his job with the Red-Headed League, or at least to find out why someone...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes deduced that The Red-Headed League did not exist, and it was actually nothing more than a ruse to get Mr. Wilson out of his shop so Clay and his accomplice could dig a tunnel. Mr. Wilson...
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The Red-Headed League
The solution is entirely satisfactory because Sherlock Holmes not only deduces that John Clay and his accomplice are going to loot the City and Suburban Bank, but he is there on the spot with a...
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The Red-Headed League
Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, freely acknowledged his deep indebtedness to Edgar Allan Poe, whose tales of ratiocination featuring the amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin, were so...
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The Red-Headed League
At the end of "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes responds to Dr. Watson's enthusiastic praise and congratulations with these words: “It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I...
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The Red-Headed League
The story The Red-Headed League, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of many stories featuring the famous characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. In this tale, Mr. Holmes is asked to inquire...
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The Red-Headed League
Peter Jones and Mr. Merryweather come into the story as it is nearing a climax. Jones is "the official police agent." He is from Scotland Yard. Mr. Merryweather is chairman of the bank directors....
