The Red-Headed League
"The Adventure of the Red Headed League", the second of the twelve Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The story, set in 1890, follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they attempt to solve the singular puzzle provided by a London pawnbroker Jabez Wilson, who is being paid very large sums of money for simply coming to an office and copying the Encyclopedia Britannica. There is a far more serious underlying motive, though.
"The Adventure of the Red Headed League" first appeared in the Strand in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked The Red Headed League second in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.
