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The Red-Headed League
The Red-Headed League
The Red-Headed League
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The pawnbroker Jabez Wilson comes to Sherlock Holmes because his suspicions for his weird but well-paid job got bigger. He was actually hired solely because of his flamboyant red hair. Wilson had to copy the Encyclopaedia Britannica four hours a day but suddenly the office was closed without any explanation. Will Holmes find out what the Red-Headed League was aiming? "The Red-Headed League" is part of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".-
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PublisherSAGA Egmont
Release dateSep 28, 2020
ISBN9788726586206
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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    The Red-Headed League - Arthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Red-Headed League

    SAGA Egmont

    The Red-Headed League

    The characters and use of language in the work do not express the views of the publisher. The work is published as a historical document that describes its contemporary human perception.

    Copyright © 1891, 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle and SAGA Egmont

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    I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year, and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw, when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room, and closed the door behind me.

    You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Watson, he said cordially.

    I was afraid that you were engaged.

    So I am. Very much so.

    Then I can wait in the next room.

    Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also.

    The stout gentleman half rose from his chair, and gave a bob of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small, fat-encircled eyes.

    Try the settee, said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair, and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods. I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of every-day life. You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.

    Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me, I observed.

    You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

    A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.

    "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on

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