Emily is happy with her life just as it is.
She loves her career as a midwife, & enjoys living on her own
- but
Watson has been discharged from military service after suffering severe wounds, & he is having no luck finding accommodation
- until a chance encounter leads him to a remarkable young man, & 221B Baker Street.
The arrogant, irascible Sherlock Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician & an expert on all aspects of crime
- but, despite his best efforts, Watson is in the dark about his room-mate's profession. Finally Holmes reveals that he is a consulting detective, & soon Watson is drawn into the investigation of a bizarre murder in which Holmes is involved, unaware that it is the beginning of the most famous partnership in the history of criminal detection.
An unmarked corpse, a wedding ring & a mysterious message scrawled in blood are the intrepid pair's only clues as they follow the trail of a man driven to fulfil a terrible oath which he swore more than twenty years before.