The Red-Headed League

Holmes and Doyle pull out all the stops for this classic Conan Doyle story. Of all the many excellent tales in the life of Sherlock Holmes this must rate amongst the most perpelxing of them all. Why would a pawnbroker have to copy out in longhand the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, word for word, and what bearing can the knees of a man's trousers have on the case?