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"The Red-Headed League" was the second of Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand Magazine. Doyle ranked “The Red-Headed League” second in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. It was first published in August of 1891, and was, later, the first of the stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892.
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About Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born of Irish parentage in Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but he also had a passion for storytelling. His first book introduced that prototype of the modern detective in fiction, Sherlock Holmes. Despite the immense popularity Holmes gained throughout the world, Doyle was not overly fond of the character and preferred to write other stories. Eventually popular demand won out and he continued to satisfy readers with the adventures of the legendary sleuth. He also wrote historical romances and made two essays into pseudoscientific fantasy: The Lost World and The Poison Belt.