Red-Headed League

This story is about a man called John Clay who is from the royal family directly or indirectly and his accomplice Vincent Spaulding. Vincent had agreed to work at Sherlock Holmes's client, Mr Wilson at half the wages of the market price. This had made Sherlock Holmes suspicious of him. John and Vincent worked hand in hand and offered four pounds a week for copying the encyclopedia. This is to cover up as they slowly build an underground tunnel. They would make an attempt to steal the French gold on the particular night where Sherlock had predicted which is Saturday. They had chose Saturday as it is the best day for them because they will have two days to escape and also because the tunnel may be discovered. Through all Sherlock's reasoning, he concluded that they will act on Saturday.

My favourite character here will be Sherlock Holmes as I feel that he is the smartest in this adventure. John is very cunning and Sherlock Holmes could actually look at all the small details which he has found and taken note of and solve the mystery. He is a very successful detective for all the adventures and I admire him a lot.

This adventure may be quite boring but a lot of Sherlock Holmes intelligence is shown in this story, thus I feel that this story is still considered interesting although it is not as nice to read as the other adventures.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) is the author of this book. He is a Scottish physician and writer and was most noted for his stories on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He "killed" Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem" but was forced to resurrect Sherlock Holmes due to the public outcry. Indeed, Sherlock Holmes has a great impact on the readers.