Encyclopaedia

Nov 13 2022 | Sunday

Hello, beloved reader.

If somebody were to pay you a good amount of money to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica, would you do it?

In the short story, 'The Red-Headed League' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Wilson, who runs a small pawnbroker's business and has bright, blazing, fiery red hair, gets a job to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The only condition is that he has to be in the office, or at least in the building, the whole four hours.

All goes well for eight weeks and then the whole business comes to an end quite abruptly. Mr. Wilson goes to work as usual at ten o'clock, but the door is shut and locked, with a little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack, informing about the dissolution of the Red-Headed League, and that is when Mr. Wilson goes to seek Sherlock Holmes' help.
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Sahar Afreen

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