Sherlock Holmes is dead Days after Holmes & his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives from New York The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation & deduction Chase must hunt down this shadowy figure a man much feared but seldom seen a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder & menace The game is afoot