Talk:The Red-Headed League

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[edit] Red Headed League in The Times

In The Times Personal adverts for 20 January 1921 there is an advert for The Red Headed League - possibly a scam. Jackiespeel 19:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removed inappropriate analysis from main plot section

"(Unaccountably, the posibility of a villain sexually interested in a 14-year old girl does not seem to have occurred to Holmes, though such people existed at the time of writing as at present.) "

If you want to put it back, so so in an "analysis" section. Don't point out plot holes in the main summary.

Besides, who is to say this is a real plot hole? I am sure we can agree the sensibilities of the time did not encourage Doyle to write about such deviations, and I find nothing strange whatsoever that Doyle had Holmes ignore this possibility. 85.227.226.168 18:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Name of the police detective

The name of the police detective in this story is given as Peter Jones, while the detective in the earlier story The Sign of Four is Athelney Jones. It is not clear whether Doyle misquoted the name from his earlier story. In the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) episode of The Red-Headed League starring Jeremy Brett, the appearance of the detective is very different from the description of Athelney Jones provided by Doyle, so at least the TV series seems to treat the two detectives as different.