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Section 1, A Scandal in Bohemia

• Section 1, A Scandal in Bohemia

• A masked man enters Holmes apartment.

• Holmes deduces that this man is the king of Bohemia.
• Irene Adler has a picture of herself and the king that she threatens to make public on the king's wedding day.
• Holmes devises a scheme involving a smoke bomb in Adler's home to retrieve the picture.

• Adler marries another man and leaves the picture behind, which Holmes collects.

Section 2, The Red-Headed League

• Section 2, The Red-Headed League

• Mr. Jabez Wilson, a red head, was asked to join the Red-Headed League.

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• Wilson was paid four pounds a week to show up daily at an office and copy the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Holmes ponders the story told by Wilson and then asks Watson to join him at the theater, mainly to stop by Wilson's shop.

• Holmes solves the case - John Clay has been tunneling underneath...

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