In the Red Headed League, a man named Jabez Wilson went to Holmes and told him what had happened. His assistant showed him an ad in the newspaper from the Red Headed League which said that there was a job opening and only a red headed man would be hired. So, because Wilson was red headed he went to the address and saw a line of red headed men. After some time he went to the office and was interviewed and became the only person hired that day. His work was to copy an encyclopedia for 4 pounds a week. One day after several weeks of working he saw a sign that said "The Red Headed League is Dissolved". Wilson was mad that he was not going to be payed anymore so he wanted to know what happened. Holmes told him that the case would be solved in 2 days. He found out that the people who hired him wanted to keep him out of his house so they could dig in his basement so they could break into the bank next door.
In A Case of Identity, a woman named Mary Sutherland had a relationship with a man who had just disappeared. Sherlock Holmes called this an elementary case and agreed to solve it. Her boyfriend's name was Mr. Hosmer Angel and no one knows his address. All of his letters are written on a typewriter and she writes back to him by putting her letters in the post office. They only met together when Mary knows her step father is out of the country. So, Holmes finds out very quickly that her stepfather was Angel but does not tell her because he knows she will not believe it.
Both of these stories were very short and somewhat odd. I believe that Doyle's longer stories are better than these short ones.
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