It’s the longer, oppressive summertime of 1912. Four weeks ago the RMS Titanic was lost towards the Atlantic. In European countries the drumbeats of battle grow louder. These things have yet to touch Mr Sherlock Holmes who, estranged from Dr Watson, lives in reclusive retirement for the South Downs. The globe’s foremost legal investigator offers turned his back again on days gone by, hiding through the world and thinking himself immune system to its excesses. However he is going to become faced by a vintage friend, to come across probably the most hated guy in England and to grapple with the painful implications from the Titanic disaster. Even more troubling still, he will be required to try to resolve a new and unexpected mystery – perhaps one of the most diabolical and fiendish murders with which he offers have you been confronted…