"The Red-Headed League" | |||
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Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
Text available at Wikisource | |||
Country | United Kingdom | ||
Language | English | ||
Genre(s) | Detective fiction short stories | ||
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Published in | Strand Magazine | ||
Publication date | August 1891 | ||
Chronology | |||
Series | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | ||
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"The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.[1] It is also the second of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892.