![]() The second short story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle that I have been reading on Wattpad, is The Red-Headed League. “It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.” ![]() But after only four weeks the office mysteriously closes, and no-one has heard of the Red-Headed League, nor the man Wilson was interviewed / managed by. When Wilson learns of the very simple work he must undertake in order to earn his high wage, he is eager to begin. ![]() However, it is only a very specific shade of red hair they are looking for, and Wilson is the only one offered the position. The following morning, he followed the directions from the advert and joined a long line of red-heads applying for the job. He wasn’t sure, thinking it was too good to be true, but acquiesced. He explains that his assistant encouraged him to respond to advert in the paper offering very well-paid work to red-headed male applicants. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson receive a visitor, Jabez Wilson, a man with a shock of red hair. ![]()
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