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Sherlock Holmes The Red Headed League Analysis

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Stackhouse 1 Stackhouse 2 Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League Doctor John Watson visits his friend, the famous private detective Sherlock Holmes. Watson finds Holmes deep in thought with Jabez Wilson, an entirely unremarkable man except for his fiery red hair. Wilson explain he is a pawnbroker with a new assistant named Vince Spaudling who is working for half the usual salary to learn the business. Wilson admits he is a fine worker, but spends most of his time in the basement developing pictures. Two months prior, his assistant points out an ad in the newspaper looking for someone to fill the opening in the League of Red-Headed Men. According to Spaulding, the league was established by an eccentric and wealthy American man who promotes the …show more content…

For eight weeks afterwards, Wilson was handsomely paid to copy pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica, forbidding him from leaving the office for any reason during his four hour shifts. However, on the morning of visiting Holmes, Wilson admits that the League apparently and abruptly had been dissolved, and Duncan Ross was nowhere to be found. Holmes finds that Spaulding came to assist Wilson just a month before the affair began, and promises an answer within a few days. Holmes and Watson decide to visit his pawnbroker shop. In front of the shop, Holmes stops and thumps the ground with his walking stick and knocks on the door to ask Spaulding for directions. Afterwards, Holmes tells Watson that Spaulding is the fourth-smartest man in London. Holmes also admits that the knees of Spaulding’s pants was exactly what he needed to see. Holmes the notices a bank a bank behind Wilson’s shop and finishes for the day. That night, Holmes invites Peter Jones, a Scotland yard detective, a bank manager named Mr. Merryweather, and Watson to join him in a run-in with the notorious criminal John Clay. The men meet up in the basement of the bank behind Wilson’s shop, and wait

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