Black Peter was a successful seal and whale fisher, a hard manand captain of the sealer Seaunicorn. When he gave up sealing, he bought a house for his wife and daughter and built a smallhouse of wood in the garden where he slept – and drank rum.one morning his daughter found him, a harpoon run through him anddeep into the wood.then…in The Red-Headed League Mr Wilson, who has a fine head ofred hair, is told by his assistant about a job at the offices of theleague , excellent pay, little work.there where hundreds of menwhen he got there, but he gets the job, he is to be in the office every day and copy out the encyclopaedia Britannica, starting af A! Across the street from his shop was thecellar of one of the big london banks