' If I were assured of your eventual destruction I would in the interests of the public cheerfully accept my own' In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted by the criminal underworld at last gets the better of him Though Holmes & his faithful sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most bizarre & extraordinary cases
- the disappearance of the race horse Silver Blaze the horrific circumstances of the Greek Interpreter & the curious mystery of the Musgrave Ritual among them
- a criminal mastermind is plotting the downfall of the great detective Half-devil half-genius Professor Moriarty leads Holmes & Watson on a grisly cat-&-mouse chase through London & across Europe culminating in a frightful struggle which will turn the legendary Reichenbach Falls into a water double-grave