Dr. Watson visits the apartment of his friend Sherlock Holmes. He
inds detective Holmes talking to a client with bright red hair, Mr. Jabez Wilson. Holmes
Dr. Watson to hear the unusual story of the client.
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Wilson says that he runs a pawnshop. One day in his shop, his assistant, Vincent
spaulding, showed an advertisement in the newspaper that announced an opening in
the Red-Headed League. The announcement promised a salary of four pounds
week
Spaulding urged Wilson to apply. The timid red - haired pawnbroker did so. Wilson was
accepted into the League by Mr. Duncan Ross, the head of the League.
He learned that the nominal duties consisted only of his coming to the office from
10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. each day and copying out the Encyclopaedia Britannica in
longhand. This he did for eight weeks until one day he arrived at the office to find it
closed, with a notice on the door that the Red-Headed League had been dissolved. He
was so disturbed by the thought that someone had been playing a practical joke on him
that he came to Holmes for a solution. Holmes promises to look into the case and Wilson
leaves. Holmes and Dr. Watson move to Wilson's shop in Saxe-Coburg Square at once.
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