Talk:The Red-Headed League
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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)
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)
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
"Most famous"?
Really?
Such a purely subjective assessment should not be included in the first sentence of the article! Canth1 (talk) 20:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
"Deleted Most of Analysis"
As Holmes meant that Wilson had learned some minute knowledge of everything under the letter "A", not himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.35.148.156 (talk) 01:24, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Dates
Villains
The article lists three villains in the story: "John Kyle (Vincent Spaulding), Archie and Duncan Ross (William Morris)". I think there is no doubt that there are only two: Jonh Kyle aka Vincent Spaulding, and Archie, whose surname is not mentioned but who uses two pseudonyms for different audiences: Duncan Ross and William Morris. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.214.74.226 (talk) 12:48, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Inflation detail
I made a small edit, showing that the inflated 370 pounds figure is the weekly amount, rather than the inflated value of the total. When I read this initially, I was not sure what was meant, so I thought it made sense to clarify. Boomcoach (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2014 (UTC)