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clue 5. Jabez Wilson's pawn shop is behind the the City and Suburban Bank.
clue 2. The red-headed league job took Jabez Wilson away from his shop from ten until two in the afternoon.
clue 1. Spaulding spent a lot of time in the cellar
clue 4. When Holmes looked at Vincent Spaulding's knees, he saw that they were covered with soil.
clue 3. When Holmes knocked on the ground in front Jabez Wilson's pawn shop, he discovered that the ground beneath was solid.
Morris has a rather weak character.He is not a brave person and is scared of the scowrers,although a part of the Scowrers. He cannot do any thing as it will cost him his life.he was also coward too instead of scared and disloyal as he didn't wanted to murder someone............
Helen stoner is one of the important character in the story "The Adventures of the speckled band".
'The Red Head League' is a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It concerns a red-headed London shop owner who is persuaded to join a rather exclusive club where all members have to be red-headed. Membership is profitable, the shop owner is paid to copy out the encyclopedia. Then once day he arrives only to find a note on the door of the club saying that the club has been disbanded. The shop owner consults Sherlock Holmes - who deduces a truly sinister plot behind the whole affair.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels about the "first consulting detective".
The Adventure of the Speckled Band is a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is consulted by a young woman whose sister has recently died under strange circumstances in a locked room. Her dying words are "It was the band! The speckled band!"
Agatha Christie's works are still copyrighted, so they are not yet available in the public domain. This means that they cannot be read for free online legally. However, they can be purchased in e-book form. See the related link and questions below.
Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but he was a pure-blood Irishman
In his autobiography, Memories and Adventures (1924), Conan Doyle writes: 'I, an Irishman by extraction, was born in the Scottish capital after two separate lines of Irish wanderers came together under one roof.'
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, the details of which the world is not yet prepared to learn.
The theme of Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" may be seen as man vs. environment. This is basically an adventure story. The protagonists travel to an area where Dinosaurs still exist, and come back rich.
The Scottish born Sir Arthur lived mostly in southern England. Following schooling, he resided in several different places at different times owning to changes in his medical practice and the good fortunes that came his way because of his writing. (Not necessarily the Sherlock Holmes works.) Among the places he lived were Plymouth, Southsea, Surrey and in London (where his South Norwood House is preserved). Certainly he spent a bit of time in other places, one being Vienna, where he continued some medical studies. Use the link below to begin some reading about the man behind the Sherlock Holmes works.
Conan Doyle lived in different places of the world likee for example he lived in southern England, Plymouth, Southsea, Surrey and in London.
Plot Summary
Dr. Watson drops in on his friend Sherlock Holmes to find him in conversation with a man with fiery red hair, a Mr. Jabez Wilson. Wilson has come to Holmes with a problem concerning an organization for which he was working but that has mysteriously disappeared. Wilson owns a pawnshop but had for the last few months been employed part-time. At Holmes' urging, he tells his story.
Wilson's assistant Vincent Spaulding had pointed out to Wilson a job notice in the newspaper. It was a job sponsored by the Red-Headed League, and only men with red hair need apply. Spaulding convinced Wilson to go to the interview, and because of the bright color of his hair, Wilson was hired. His job was to copy the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 10 A.M. until 2 P.M. He was not to leave the room at all, or he would lose his job. Wilson enjoyed the extra money he made but one Saturday, when he showed up at work, he saw a sign that said the League was dissolved. Wilson set out to discover what had happened to the League, and his well-paying job, but could learn nothing. Spaulding advised that he wait until the League got in touch with him, but Wilson came to seek the advice of Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes asks a few questions about Spaulding, finding out that he has been with Wilson for only a short time, that he works for half the wages of anyone else, that he develops photographs in the pawnshop's cellar, and that he has a mark upon his forehead. Holmes gets excited at the last bit of information, and it seems that he recognizes Spaulding. Holmes then sends Wilson home, saying he will give him advice in a few days. After reflecting for an hour, Holmes, accompanied by Watson, goes to the square in which Wilson's shop is located. Holmes examines the neighborhood, thumps upon the pavement in front of the shop with his walking-stick, and then knocks on the door. A young man, presumably Spaulding, answers, and Holmes asks directions of him. However, he is most interested in observing the knees of the shop assistant's trousers; he sees there what he had expected to see. The two men then walk around the block to see what shops are behind Wilson's shop. There is a tobacco store, a newspaper store, a restaurant, a carriage-depot, and the City and Suburban Bank.
The two men attend a concert that afternoon. Afterwards, Holmes tells Watson that a serious crime is about to be committed and that he needs Watson's help that evening. Watson returns to Holmes' residence at ten that evening, where police agent Peter Jones, of the Scotland Yard, and Mr. Merryweather, of the City and Suburban Bank, are already gathered. Holmes explains that they are going to meet the master criminal John Clay this evening. The men take carriages to the bank and wait in the vault. Merryweather realizes that Clay is about to attempt to steal a large reserve of gold. The four men then quiet down and wait.
After more than an hour, one of the stones on the floor begins to move. John Clay emerges through the hole in the floor. He pulls his partner, a man with fiery red hair, up after him. Holmes springs out from his hiding place and uses his hunting crop to knock the gun out of Clay's hand. The accomplice has dashed back through the hole, but Holmes had warned Jones to put guards in front of Wilson's shop, where the tunnel leads. Jones leads Clay outside to take him to the police station.
In the early hours of the morning, Holmes explains to Watson how he solved the crime. He realized immediately that Wilson's job copying the encyclopedia was simply a ruse to get him out of the pawnshop for several hours a day. Holmes figured that Spaulding, who spent so much time in the pawnshop's cellar, was digging a tunnel leading to a nearby building. By thumping his walking-stick on the pavement, Holmes determined the tunnel stretched behind the house, so he walked around the block to see what businesses were there. When he saw a bank, the tunnel's destination was obvious. Holmes also looked at the knees of Spaulding's trousers to see that they were worn and stained from hours of digging out a tunnel. He knew Spaulding would rob the bank that evening, Saturday, because he would thus have an extra day before the robbery would be discovered and he could make his escape. After solving the problem mentally, Holmes called Jones and Merryweather to help catch the thieves.
Watson openly admires Holmes, but Holmes merely says that solving the case saved him from boredom, a boredom which is already beginning to settle on him again. He says that his life is simply an attempt to "escape from the commonplaces of existence." Watson points out that he helps people as well. Holmes agrees, noting that man himself is nothing, but that his work is everything.
yes, very much, he based Watson on himself! Funny huh!
He was rather un-social, determined, clever, focused, efficient.
There is some evidence that he was bi-polar. Extremely excitable when he had a case extremely depressed and give to cocaine when he did not.
uncover a plan to rob a bank
Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still with you?"
"Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him."
"And has your business been attended to in your absence?"
"Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a morning."
"That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion."
"Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what do you make of it all?"
"I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most mysterious business."
Watson comments that while he is still confused by the case it appears that Holmes has solved the mystery. At this point in the story, are you confused or do you have a hunch about solving the case?
"As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this matter."
"What are you going to do, then?" I asked.
"To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.
"Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare you for a few hours?"
"I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very absorbing."
"Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the program, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective and I want to introspect. Come along!"Sherlock Holmes often smoked his pipe while reflecting on the details of a case and trying to reach the solution.
If you read the story, you will discover that what they think is a band, is actually a poisonous snake.
Sir Henry Baskerville who spent most of his life in Canada.
Holmes's birthday is generally accepted as January 6th 1854, this date is not actually recorded in Sir Arthur's documents and he never actually 'died'.
From the mid-1800's to the early 1900's, the era typically referred to as Victorian England. Sherlock Holmes was born on January 6, 1854.
They wait for the signal light set out by Helen Stoner until eleven pm. They walk the short distance to Stoke Moran where they are accosted by a baboon then they entered the middle bedroom through the unbolted window to wait more than four hours in silence while they hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour, once the cat-like whine of the cheetah, and an occasional night-bird. Holmes uses a cane to frighten their quarry back into Dr Roylott's room where it kills Dr Roylott who had loosed it in the first place. Next, they must explain what happened to the county police.