The Baker Street Irregulars were Sherlock Holmes' "unofficial force": a dozen London urchins, apparently headed by a boy named Wiggins. Holmes paid each boy a shilling a day, with a guinea prize to anyone who found the vital clue. Used by Holmes to search out information where he or the police would be conspicuous, the Irregulars appeared in only three of the stories: "A Study in Scarlet," The Sign of Four," and "The Crooked Man."
Ben Schott, Schott's Original Miscellany, 2002
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