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The Red-Headed League
Early in "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes surprises his friend Dr. Watson, as well as his new client Jabez Wilson, with the following deductions. “Beyond the obvious facts that he has at...
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The Red-Headed League
The league ended when the criminal, John Clay, no longer needed Mr. Wilson away from his shop during the day. The Red-Headed League was highly unlikely. It was brought to Mr. Wilson’s attention...
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The Red-Headed League
The single most important clue that gave Sherlock Holmes an idea of the motives of the man who calls himself Vincent Spaulding in "The Red-Headed League" is not one of the several clues the...
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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
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, “The Red-Headed League,” the criminals want Jabez Wilson out of his pawnbroker’s shop because they want to use that shop in a criminal enterprise....
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The Red-Headed League
In "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes deduces that his visitor Jabez Wilson has done manual labor in his earlier life from the following observation. When Wilson asks: “How did you know,...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson seems generally pleased with his new assistant, but he has one complaint. “Oh, he has his faults, too,” said Mr. Wilson. “Never was such a fellow for photography. Snapping away...
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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
One important clue which Sherlock Holmes immediately picks up on while listening to Jabez Wilson's story is that Wilson's new clerk got hired because he was willing to come for half wages....
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson tells Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that he came to work at the offices of the Red-Headed League that very morning, which was a Saturday. He found the door locked and a note on it...
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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 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
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
In The Red-Headed League, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are hired by Mr. Jabez Wilson to look into the mysterious disappearance of a business known as the Red-Headed League. Upon being visited by...
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The Red-Headed League
John Clay, who uses the name Vincent Spaulding, went to work for Jabez Wilson because Wilson's pawn shop was well situated for tunneling about one block to the bank where the gold French napoleon...
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The Red-Headed League
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published "The Red-Headed League" in the magazine The Strand in August 1891. The Strand was a British monthly magazine that began in January 1891 and continued to March...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson was talked into going down to the office of the fictitious Red-Headed League because he had such brilliant red hair. He tells Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: “Now, it is a fact,...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson might be called "gullible," but this does not seem to be the character trait that the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was seeking to suggest. Near the end of the story Sherlock Holmes,...
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The Red-Headed League
Early in his career Sherlock Holmes trained himself to become a "private consulting detective." He told Watson when they first started sharing rooms at Baker Street that he was not interested in...
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The Red-Headed League
Early in the story Holmes makes the following observations about Jabez Wilson to Dr. Watson, who has been watching Wilson and trying to make his own deductions about the man: Sherlock Holmes'...
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The Red-Headed League
They find a bank behind the pawnbroker’s shop. When a pawnbroker comes to Sherlock Holmes with a suspicious story of a job at a Red-Headed League that no longer exists, Holmes is curious. He asks...
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The Red-Headed League
Holmes warns Mr. Merryweather to be quiet so the bank robbers will not hear them. Holmes went through a lot of trouble to catch the bank robbers. He didn’t want Mr. Merryweather to mess it up...
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The Red-Headed League
Dr. Watson differs starkly from Sherlock Holmes in his powers of observation. At the beginning of "The Red-Headed League," Watson attempts to study Jabez Wilson carefully, "after the fashion of...
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The Red-Headed League
There are several ways to try to evaluate how much money the phony Red-Headed League paid Jabez Wilson for copying pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The exchange rate for American dollars to...
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The Red-Headed League
Sherlock Holmes and John Clay have some attributes in common, although they are on opposite sides of the law. We learn from Mr. Jones, the police agent, that John Clay is "at the head of his...
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The Red-Headed League
The two men are a police officer and the bank director and Holmes wants them to witness the bank robbery attempt. When Holmes is visited by a client who claims that he was employed by a strange...
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The Red-Headed League
"The Red-Headed League" is one of the best Sherlock Holmes stories because it is based on such an unusual idea. The criminal John Clay invents a job for Jabez Wilson to keep him out of the way...
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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
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
Holmes and Watson listen to Mr. Jabez Wilson tell his story of the Red-Headed League. They both found the story to be fantastic and humorous. However, Sherlock tells Mr. Wilson that his problem...
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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
"The Red-Headed League" was one of the earliest Sherlock Holmes stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published. As such, it contains more direct characterization of Holmes than later stories. Direct...
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The Red-Headed League
A common element in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries is that the endings work out perfectly due to Holmes' methods. However, sometimes the success of his crime-solving depends...
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The Red-Headed League
In the story, “The Red-Headed League,” Sherlock Holmes’ client is a man named Jabez Wilson. He is about 60 years old and he runs a small pawn shop. He is a bachelor and does not have much...
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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
When Sherlock Holmes is listening to Jabez Wilson's complaint, Holmes' keen mind is making assumptions and deductions that never would have occurred to the "not over-bright pawnbroker." As Holmes...
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The Red-Headed League
C. The gold is an attraction for a potential thief. The story makes it pretty obvious that the gold is an attraction to a potential thief because it is all about how two thieves are actually trying...
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The Red-Headed League
During the interview, Holmes learns that the assistant's name is Vincent Spaulding. That he is around thirty years old. That he has a avid interest in photography and is always diving down into...
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The Red-Headed League
The answer to your multiple choice question is d. John Clay. Sherlock Holmes first hears this name when he asks his prospective client Jabez Wilson: “What is the name of this obliging youth?”...
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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....
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The Red-Headed League
In the story, Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, is informed about an advertised position by his assistant, Vincent Spaulding. Spaulding tells Wilson that the position at the Red-Headed League is...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson is described at first glance by Dr. Watson as “a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair.” Upon further inspection, as Watson is attempting to use...
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The Red-Headed League
Jabez Wilson's assistant, who calls himself Vincent Spaulding, and his partner in crime, who calls himself Duncan Ross, are digging a tunnel from the cellar under Wilson's pawnshop to the basement...
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The Red-Headed League
It may seem too late for Jabez Wilson to be consulting Sherlock Holmes, since he has not only lost his job, but the Red-Headed League has been dissolved as of that morning. Sherlock Holmes points...
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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
On the night in question, Holmes and Watson meet with Peter Jones, a police officer, and Mr Merryweather, a bank director, at Baker Street. From there, the four men travel to the vault of Mr...
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The Red-Headed League
As one of the earlier Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, "The Red-Headed League" gave author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the opportunity to reveal a greater depth of character for Sherlock Holmes. The...
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The Red-Headed League
The climax occurs when the criminals are caught robbing the bank. The climax of a story is when things change, or the most exciting point. In a mystery, most of the time is spent trying to find...
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The Red-Headed League
A good way to think about how authors develop characters through indirect characterization is the mnemonic STEAL. Look for what the character SAYS and what others SAY about him, how he or she...
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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...
