In the Red Headed League, story written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes again shows his faculty of solving challenging mysterious perplex case. This time, the case is about a “red headed league”, which is a league own buy a success red headed man. The client, Mr.Wilson explained that the league is hiring people for copying encyclopedia with high payments, and he is the one who got hired. Mr.Wilson said that his assistant, Vincent Spaulding, introduce him this job. However, after he went to work for several days, the working place was shut down for no reason, and the league was completely gone. After Mr.Wilson explained the whole case to Sherlock Holmes and Mr.Watson, Sherlock Holmes and Mr.Watson with several friends have a meeting at night to solve the case. They finally found out that the red headed league is actually a fraud group and Mr.Wilson’s assistant is actually one of them, so that they can make sure Mr.Wilson is away from his shop in order for them to dig a tunnel to the bank and steal moneys.
Overall, I think this story goes in a very intense path, and I am really impress on how Sherlock Holmes solve the entire case. Through reading the story, I feels like I am also having an adventure with all the characters in the stories. If I am Sherlock Holmes, I won’t be able to have the courage to meet the criminals at night and can’t solve the case that quick. However, I really enjoy reading the story and see how they find out the true identity of the Red Headed League.
Stella, again nice job with summarizing the plot of the story! You have some great thoughts on the story as well. I definitely think this story is really intense too, and Sherlock Holmes is impressive to say the least. If only we all had his powers of deduction... Haha.
ReplyDeleteWhat I love about Sherlock Holmes stories is that, like you said, you get to go on the adventure with them. You see and hear all the facts and try to work out the case too, and it's super exciting – even if you usually end up confused like Watson is most of the time! Then when Sherlock walks you through his reasoning, everything sort of clicks and it makes perfect sense! I think it's brilliant.
I know it was a little more difficult to read considering the writing is rather old-fashioned, but good job on getting through your first singular (Look, I used one of Conan Doyle's words! Do you remember what it means?) Sherlock Holmes story! :)