Holmes learns McCarthy was trying to arrange a marriage between James and Turner’s daughter. Witnesses say McCarthy and James argued just before McCarthy’s body was discovered. He and his son, James, lived on land owned by a wealthy old acquaintance, John Turner. Holmes investigates the murder of an Australian named Charles McCarthy. As long as Sutherland lived in his home, waiting for her beloved (but phony) fiancé, Windebank had access to her money. Holmes deduces that Angel was Sutherland’s stepfather, Windebank, in disguise. Just before Angel’s disappearance, he made her promise to wait for him, no matter what. Holmes discovers a pair of criminals concocted the Red-Headed League to keep Wilson out of his shop so they could dig a tunnel beneath it and access a bank vault.Ī woman named Mary Sutherland asks Holmes for help finding her missing fiancé, Hosmer Angel. One day, a note on the office door said the society was disbanded. Once able to prove his hair was legitimately red, Wilson was hired and asked to copy pages from the encyclopedia for several hours a day.

He applied for a position with the Red-Headed League, which his assistant insisted was an elite organization that paid well. The king is satisfied to let the matter drop.Ī pawnbroker named Jabez Wilson approaches Holmes about the strange and sudden loss of his side job.

She is only keeping the photo in case the king should try to ruin her reputation. She tells him she is happy with her new husband and has no intention of blackmailing the king. Adler bests Holmes when she discovers his investigation. Holmes accidentally ends up serving as a witness in Adler’s elopement with another man. Holmes dons several disguises and enlists Watson’s help to find the photo in Adler’s home. The Bohemian king, preparing to marry, asks Holmes to retrieve an incriminating photograph of him with a former mistress, Irene Adler. The following are the cases included in this book: He often solves crimes Scotland Yard cannot. John Watson, Holmes takes on strange and challenging cases. With the help of his friend and biographer, Dr. Sherlock Holmes is a quirky British detective with an unusually keen eye for detail.

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