Showing results for "The League" in Contemporary Fiction

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone - Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he's an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he's doing toeing the rubber in Alaska's Moose League. But when Jennifer Tisch of the Anchorage Daily News goes looking for a story, she soon learns there's much more to the tough-talking, hard-drinking Patterson than meets the eye.

大和新聞の政治部で、官房長官のトップリーグとして活躍していた松岡直樹は、史上最年少で特別編集委員になっていた。

「トップリーグ」とは、総理大臣や官房長官、与党幹部に食い込んだごく一部の記者を指す－－大和新聞の松岡は、入社１５年目にして政治部へ異動、官房長官番になり、またたく間にトップリーグ入りを果たした。