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The plot is set in motion when a red-haired pawnbroker named Jabez Wilson asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the sudden disappearance of a society called the Red-Headed League. For two months, the Red-Haired League paid Wilson well for doing very little work. Jabez Wilson is primarily concerned with the loss of a lucrative second income but also suspects that a prank of some kind may have been played upon him. Holmes, however, believes that the prank may be part of a plan for a much more serious crime.

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  • The Red-Headed League
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  • The plot is set in motion when a red-haired pawnbroker named Jabez Wilson asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the sudden disappearance of a society called the Red-Headed League. For two months, the Red-Haired League paid Wilson well for doing very little work. Jabez Wilson is primarily concerned with the loss of a lucrative second income but also suspects that a prank of some kind may have been played upon him. Holmes, however, believes that the prank may be part of a plan for a much more serious crime.
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  • The plot is set in motion when a red-haired pawnbroker named Jabez Wilson asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the sudden disappearance of a society called the Red-Headed League. For two months, the Red-Haired League paid Wilson well for doing very little work. Jabez Wilson is primarily concerned with the loss of a lucrative second income but also suspects that a prank of some kind may have been played upon him. Holmes, however, believes that the prank may be part of a plan for a much more serious crime. Television adaptations of "The Red-Headed League" were produced in the United Kingdom in 1951, 1965 and 1985 and in the United States in 1954. The story was also adapted as an episode of the American radio series The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which was first broadcast on April 26, 1977. In a list of the twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle compiled for The Strand magazine in 1927, the author named "The Red-Headed League" as his second favorite, following "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". "The Red-Headed League" was also ranked as the second best of Conan Doyle's fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories in a 1959 list which was voted for by the readers of The Baker Street Journal, again following "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".
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