Jabez Wilson got a job at the Society of Redheads after seeing an advertisement offering a vacancy for a redhead. Mr. Wilson’s work involved copying out the “Encyclopedia Britannica” and took 4 hours a day. He was paid a lot of money. After working for 8 weeks, Mr. Wilson came in one day and saw an announcement that the Society of Redheads had been dissolved. Everything that happened seemed very strange to him, and he asked Holmes to look into the matter.