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Chapter 1

Wilson's tale of the dissolved League

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  1. A high, wide view down onto a soot-dark Baker Street terrace on a smoky autumn morning, with a hansom at the kerb and a single amber window glowing on the first floor.

    1 A high, wide view down onto a soot-dark Baker Street terrace on a smoky autumn morning, with a hansom at the kerb and a single amber window glowing on the first floor.

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  2. A close detail of a stout client's wrist and waistcoat: a pink-scaled fish tattoo above the cuff and a square-holed Chinese coin on a brass watch-chain, the last clues in a detective's deduction.

    2 A close detail of a stout client's wrist and waistcoat: a pink-scaled fish tattoo above the cuff and a square-holed Chinese coin on a brass watch-chain, the last clues in a detective's deduction.

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  3. Dr. Watson, newspaper flattened in both hands, stares at the absurd Red-Headed League advertisement, baffled.

    3 Dr. Watson, newspaper flattened in both hands, stares at the absurd Red-Headed League advertisement, baffled.

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  4. From a high vantage, a sea of red-headed men packs Fleet Street and the stair of Pope's Court, while stout Jabez Wilson and his assistant shoulder their way toward the League's doorway.

    4 From a high vantage, a sea of red-headed men packs Fleet Street and the stair of Pope's Court, while stout Jabez Wilson and his assistant shoulder their way toward the League's doorway.

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  5. A top-down insert of Jabez Wilson's thick fingers holding up the curt white card that announces the end of the Red-headed League.

    5 A top-down insert of Jabez Wilson's thick fingers holding up the curt white card that announces the end of the Red-headed League.

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  6. In Holmes's Baker Street sitting room, the detective and the doctor collapse in laughter at the curt card announcing the dissolved League, while the red-headed pawnbroker sits stiff and rueful, holding it up.

    6 In Holmes's Baker Street sitting room, the detective and the doctor collapse in laughter at the curt card announcing the dissolved League, while the red-headed pawnbroker sits stiff and rueful, holding it up.

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  7. At the mention of Spaulding's acid-splashed forehead, Holmes snaps upright in his armchair and asks about the pierced ears.

    7 At the mention of Spaulding's acid-splashed forehead, Holmes snaps upright in his armchair and asks about the pierced ears.

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