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In “The Red-Headed League,” several clues helped Mr. Holmes find out what crime was being contemplated and when the crime was going to be committed. Throughout the story, the criminals leave clues like where their crime was planned to take place, how they would proceed with the crime, and who would be partaking in the event. There were five specific clues that pointed to what crime was being contemplated in “The Red-Headed League.” The Red-Headed League was, in fact, the first clue that helped solve this mystery. The whole purpose of the Red-Headed League was to distract the pawnbroker from their operation. As page 54 states, “He explained in the early hours of the morning, ‘it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business …show more content…

This leads us to our second clue, the cellar. On page 55, it says that the assistant would be down in the cellar for several hours a day for several months. This indicates that he was doing something down there that would require an empty house for hours in a day, hence the Red- Headed League’s creation. Another clue that proves that the assistant was digging a tunnel were his knees. Once Mr. Holmes and Mr. Wilson show up in front of the house and knock on the door, the assistant goes to greet them at the door. As page 55 states, “His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have remarked on how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of those hours of burrowing.” To add, the fourth clue Mr. Holmes uses to figure out the crime being committed was where the cellar was located. On page 55, he knocks on the pavement, trying to feel and hear if the ground below was hollow. If the ground was hollow, it means the cellar was in front of the house, but if it was

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