THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE SUMMARY

A small business owner named Wilson comes to Sherlock Holmes’ office to tell
him about a job with The Red-Headed League.
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Spaulding convinced Wilson to take the job with The Red-Headed League.
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Wilson went to the League’s office and was recruited by its secretary,
Duncan Ross.
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Holmes tells Watson that he saw on the knees of Spaulding’s trousers exactly what he wanted to see.
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Holmes takes them to City and Suburban Bank, a branch
located in the same district as Wilson’s shop.
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They capture the first man, John Clay, also known as Jabez Wilson’s hardworking assistant, Vincent Spaulding.
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The other man escapes through the crack in the floor.
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The League would pay Wilson to copy out the Encyclopedia Britannica for fours
pounds a week.
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Wilson explains that his new assistant named Spaulding

showed him a job announcement in the newspaper.

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Holmes explains that when he noticed that the bank was behind Wilson’s
shop, he had suspected that Spaulding was digging a tunnel to the bank.
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Holmes later explains his reasoning: realized from the beginning that the Red-
Headed League was simply too good to be real and that it was a scheme to get
Wilson out of the shop so that he could dig a tunnel into the nearby bank .
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Holmes and Watson first visit the district in which Wilson’s shop is located, where Holmes does
some mysterious things (where Holmes thumps his walking stick on the pavement and knocks on
the door to ask Spaulding for directions).
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Watson tells Holmes he's awesome and Holmes tells him unusual
cases save him from being bored.
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Later, he asks Watson to meet him at Baker Street that evening at ten, and to come armed because a
serious crime is about to be committed.
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They all enter the cellar of the bank, where Merryweather
thirty thousand gold coins they have recently received.
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When Watson arrives, he finds two other men there: Peter
Jones, an inspector from Scotland Yard, and a Mr.
Merryweather, a bank director.
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Holmes says that they have to wait, and they sit quietly in the
dark cellar.
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They capture the first man, John Clay, also known as Jabez
Wilson’s hardworking assistant, vincent Spaulding.
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Sherlock Holmes accepts to take this unusual case.
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Holmes explains he became suspicious of Spaulding
when first he heard that Vincent Spaulding spent his
time in the cellar.
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