Daily puzzle

Put The Red-Headed League back in order

Seven beats from our edition of The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. A red-headed pawnbroker Jabez Wilson brings Holmes a newspaper advertisement, and Holmes reads his past from his hands, cuffs and tattoo.
  2. Hired by the League At a crowded office off Fleet Street, Duncan Ross tugs Wilson’s hair to test it and gives him the post.
  3. Eight weeks of A Every day from ten to two, Wilson copies the encyclopedia and collects four gold sovereigns a week.
  4. The League is dissolved Wilson finds a card on the locked office door, and the man who hired him has vanished.
  5. Knees and a pavement Holmes thumps the pavement outside the pawnshop and asks the assistant for directions to see his trouser knees.
  6. Waiting in the vault Holmes, Watson, Jones and Merryweather sit in total darkness in a bank cellar full of French gold.
  7. Up through the floor A stone lifts, John Clay climbs out of his tunnel, and Holmes seizes him by the collar.