In these ten meticulously constructed cases, the intellectual prowess of Sherlock Holmes is tested to the utmost. Featuring a suspicious suicide, the mysterious disappearance of a Norwegian princess's jewels while she sleeps through a concert, an investigation of three murders in New England which takes an unexpected turn into alchemy and the Freemasons, a psychic star who claims to be able to reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper, a journey to Wales to investigate the death of a poet, and a stolen Stradivarius violin.
