The Red-Headed League

by

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris Character Analysis

Archie is the criminal accomplice of John Clay. He poses under the name of Duncan Ross as the employer of Jabez Wilson, as part of the scheme to get Wilson out of his house. He hires Wilson to copy out the encyclopedia for four hours every day, strictly instructing him not to leave the building during these times. Wilson therefore knows Archie, but only in the context of the Red-Headed League, not realizing that he is in fact a criminal. Archie later disappears, and it turns out that he had also been posing under the name of William Morris, claiming to the landlord of the building that he was a solicitor seeking a temporary office. The landlord had never heard of either Duncan Ross or the Red-Headed League, and the forwarding address Archie provided leads Jabez Wilson only to an artificial knee-cap factory. Although Archie initially escapes back through the tunnel during the robbery, he is presumably apprehended at the other end of the tunnel, where Sherlock Holmes has arranged for three policemen to be stationed.

Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris Quotes in The Red-Headed League

The The Red-Headed League quotes below are all either spoken by Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris or refer to Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Red-Headed League Quotes

“But we have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and once by paint.”

Related Characters: Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris (speaker), Jabez Wilson
Related Symbols: Red-Headed League
Page Number: 270
Explanation and Analysis:
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Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris Quotes in The Red-Headed League

The The Red-Headed League quotes below are all either spoken by Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris or refer to Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Bizarre vs. The Mundane Theme Icon
).
The Red-Headed League Quotes

“But we have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and once by paint.”

Related Characters: Archie / Duncan Ross / William Morris (speaker), Jabez Wilson
Related Symbols: Red-Headed League
Page Number: 270
Explanation and Analysis: