"These little problems help me to escape the boredom of everyday life."
I read The Red-headed League. Its author is Arthur Conan Doyle. He was the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous fictional detectives. The story first appeared in The Stand Magazine in August 1891, and is one of the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1892.
Being set in London in 1891, the story follows Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Dr.Watson, as they attempt to solve the strange puzzle described by a red-headed London pawnbroker, Jabes Wilson. Wilson's employee, Vincent Spaulding, tells him about a group founded by an American millionaire, now dead, who also had red hair. Wilson meets Duncan Ross, the chief of the group, and Ross makes him a strange offer: he can earn a great deal of money simply by spending four hours a day at an office, copying out the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He does this for eight weeks, then arrive one day to find the office locked.
I read the book in Japanese. It is the first Doyle's book I read and interesting.
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