The Red-Headed League

Ezekiah Hopkins supposedly founded "The Red-Headed League" to help red-headed men like himself by providing them with well-paid, easy jobs. However, the League was a fiction created by John Clay, a...

In "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes uncovers a criminal plot orchestrated by John Clay, disguised as Mr. Wilson's assistant, Vincent Spaulding. Holmes deduces Clay's true identity from his...

Jabez Wilson was offered four pounds a week for copying the Encyclopedia Britannica for 20 hours. In 1891, this amount would be equivalent to over 500 pounds or about $750 weekly today, making it an...

Jabez Wilson's main complaint about his assistant, Vincent Spaulding, is his obsession with photography, specifically his frequent trips to the cellar to develop pictures. Ironically, Wilson is...

If Mr. Wilson leaves the office during work hours, he forfeits his position with the Red-Headed League permanently. His job requires him to remain at his desk for four hours a day, five days a week,...

Jabez Wilson believed he had a good chance of being chosen for the Red-Headed League position because of his exceptionally vibrant red hair. Encouraged by his assistant, John Clay (alias Vincent...

The Red-Headed League was disbanded when its purpose was completed. 2.

The protagonist of "The Red-Headed League" is Sherlock Holmes, whose occupation is a consulting detective. Despite Jabez Wilson's initial prominence as a victim in the story, Holmes is the central...

Sherlock Holmes, the renowned detective, is approached by Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker with striking red hair. Wilson seeks Holmes' help to understand the mysterious dissolution of the Red-Headed...

Wilson's requirement to stay at the League's office from ten to two allowed Spaulding, his assistant, to work uninterrupted on a tunnel from Wilson's pawnshop to a nearby bank. Holmes deduced that...

Mr. Wilson learns from the landlord that the office of the "Red-Headed League" was rented by a man named William Morris, not Duncan Ross, and that Morris had moved out the previous day. The landlord...

The tunnel in "The Red-Headed League" serves as the criminals' means to rob a bank. While Jabez Wilson, the pawnbroker, is kept busy with a fake job at the Red-Headed League, the criminals dig a...