Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes had always been the smartest man in the room, until now. There’s a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor Moriarty—and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but Moriarty’ capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade, points to suicide. Sherlock Holmes, however, deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is but one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle designed by one Professor Moriarty. Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim, a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince’s murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction—all part of a greater plan which, if successful, will change the course of history.