There are a few suspicious details that Mr. Wilson fails to recognize when he gets his interview for the position at the red-headed league. Wilson's new assistant, Vincent Spaulding, was willing to work for half the normal wage. Spaulding was also the one who found the advertisement in the newspaper, and he practically pushed Wilson all the way to the front of the application line whereupon Wilson was promptly led in to the interview.
If i remember correctly, he saw an ad in the newspaper, which was pointed out by his assistant Vincent Spaulding.
Wilson is being paid for very little work, is a bit of a dull person, and merely accepted that he was a luckyman.
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Wilson learned that the tenant at No. 4, Pope's Court (the offices of the Red-headed League) was a solicitor known to the landlord as William Morris (not Duncan Ross) who had just moved out and gave a false forwarding address.
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League was created in 1891.
Wilson gets paid to copy the encyclopedia. What the real truth is that the red headed league is fake and that they got him out of the pawn shop so that they could dig into the bank and steal the money. As soon as the tunnel is done Wilson gets a notice that the red headed league has disbanded and that sends Wilson to Sherlock Holmes with the question of what is going on.
I'm not certain if this was in the books, but in the "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series", there was an episode titled, "The Case of the Red Headed League" (Aired 12/27/1954). The Red Headed League was a fabricated organization, with the purpose of getting the owner of a small shop (Jabez Wilson), out of his shop for several days. In the time of Wilson's departure, the 'leaders' of the Red Headed League would break into the shop everyday, without raising the suspicion of Wilson, and once inside the shop; would burrow a tunnel from the shop's cellar to the building next to the shop. The building next to the shop was the city bank. In short, the Red Headed League was fake group, that gave reason for Jabez Wilson to leave his shop everyday, so that the shop would be empty. This allows the Red Headed League time to secretly dig a tunnel into the bank next door and then rob the bank.
Copy, by hand, the entire Encyclopedia Britannicacopy an encyclopedia
Wilson learned that the tenant at No. 4, Pope's Court (the offices of the Red-headed League) was a solicitor known to the landlord as William Morris (not Duncan Ross) who had just moved out and gave a false forwarding address.
Jabez Wilson.
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League was created in 1891.
his assistant
Wilson gets paid to copy the encyclopedia. What the real truth is that the red headed league is fake and that they got him out of the pawn shop so that they could dig into the bank and steal the money. As soon as the tunnel is done Wilson gets a notice that the red headed league has disbanded and that sends Wilson to Sherlock Holmes with the question of what is going on.
Wilson's assistant Vincent Spaulding and John Clay are the villens
I'm not certain if this was in the books, but in the "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series", there was an episode titled, "The Case of the Red Headed League" (Aired 12/27/1954). The Red Headed League was a fabricated organization, with the purpose of getting the owner of a small shop (Jabez Wilson), out of his shop for several days. In the time of Wilson's departure, the 'leaders' of the Red Headed League would break into the shop everyday, without raising the suspicion of Wilson, and once inside the shop; would burrow a tunnel from the shop's cellar to the building next to the shop. The building next to the shop was the city bank. In short, the Red Headed League was fake group, that gave reason for Jabez Wilson to leave his shop everyday, so that the shop would be empty. This allows the Red Headed League time to secretly dig a tunnel into the bank next door and then rob the bank.
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Copy, by hand, the entire Encyclopedia Britannicacopy an encyclopedia
Mr. Wilson writes a lot in The Red-Headed League because he is copying out pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica as part of his job for the fake league. This busy work is a distraction to keep him out of his shop so that his assistant, John Clay, can carry out a bank heist unnoticed.
Vincent Spaulding "Has a white splash of acid upon his forehead." Also, his ears were "pierced for ear-rings," which was uncommon among men except in the seafaring class in the Victorian era.
Jabez Wilson wanted Sherlock Holmes to find out why the Red-Headed League [which for a while he had belonged too] has suddenly disappeared.Caroline