![]() ![]() The story of the Red-headed League is based on an extraordinary and somewhat implausible detail: Jabez Wilson's red hair. He deduces that Clay has been using the ruse of the Red-headed League to keep Wilson out of his shop so that in his absence he, Clay, along with some accomplices could dig a tunnel to the vault of a neighboring bank.Īlong with a bank executive and a police chief, Holmes sets up an ambush in the bank vault and catches the criminals. ![]() Holmes investigates and concludes that Vincent Spaulding, who had only recently begun working as an assistant at Wilson's shop and who had shown Wilson the Red-headed League's advertisement in a newspaper, is actually the infamous criminal John Clay. For the simple menial task of copying out parts of the Encyclopedia Brittanica for a few hours each day, Wilson was paid a handsome amount by a so-called Red-headed League but suddenly the Red-headed League disappeared. Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker with a uniquely intense head of red hair, comes to Holmes to ask for help about a mysterious job he, Wilson, had been working. ![]()
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