Job as Wilson is exorbitantly paid to copy the encyclopedia Britannica at a certain time and place every day.

Is he right to be suspicious?

Arthur Conan Doyle, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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The adventure of the red-headed league is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes stories comprising the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

It is one of the 56 short stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.

It was originally published in the Strand magazine in August 1891.

One thing to note, the dates in the story don't match the character's descriptions of time passing.

Wilson first discovers the advertisement for the league on April 27, 1890. He works for eight weeks, so he's finishing at the end of June.

However, the story begins as one day in autumn and describes the league closing on October 9, 1890.

The story is still great, but nitpickers are going to nitpick, and we thought we'd point it out.

And now, the adventure of the red-headed league by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year, and found him in deep conversation with the very stout, florted faced elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair.

With an apology for my intrusion I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door behind me.

You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Watson. He said cordially, I was afraid that you were engaged, so I am very much so.

Then I can wait in the next room, not at all.

This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me and yours also.

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