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In ‘The Red‑Headed League’, one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes tales first published in The Strand Magazine in August 1891, the detective is called to solve a perplexing case involving a society that claims to aid men with vivid red hair living in London. Holmes spends careful, methodical time unraveling the scheme, exposing hidden criminal activity beneath the society’s altruistic façade.
First publish date: 1968
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle
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