7.2 - The Fiends of New York City

Holmes and Watson go head-to-head with new and old villains, and once again solve the unsolvable, in a new adventure written by Jonathan Barnes.

Summer, 1901. For days, heat has been rising. London swelters; a long-expected storm promises to break.

In Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes is visited by a peculiar American who arrives with a warning about a strange new kind of murderer. In the West End, Dr John Watson is watching his wife, the actress, Genevieve, prepare for her greatest role to date - only for her to be confronted by a terrible ghost from the past.

There are surprising connections between these events, a web of apparent coincidence which soon draws in others: Colonel Sebastian Moran, Mycroft Holmes, a dangerously ambitious young politician and - waiting patiently for the moment to finally make her move - the mysterious organising power at the head of the underworld, the Seamstress of Peckham Rye.

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