Sherlock Holmes abandons his retirement to pursue further cases and encounters his deadliest enemy yet. The man who engineered Moriarty’s attack on him at the Reichenbach Falls is a flawed genius named Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Despite their lives being inextricably linked, these two men are complete opposites, and their mutual enmity explodes over a celebrated case.
Doyle eagerly champions the cause of two young girls who claim to have photographed fairies, much to the disgust of the strictly rationalist Holmes. When a scathing cartoon appears in Punch magazine depicting Holmes shackled to Doyle and his beliefs in spiritualism and fairies, it proves too much. It galvanises Holmes to act, and he sets about discrediting this subject so dear to Doyle’s heart in an ingenious manner.
The case of the Cottingley fairy photographs brings Holmes and Doyle face to face in a story of unwavering faith versus cool logic.
