Sherlock Holmes is goaded into a boxing match, in which his opponent,
Sailor Mackenzie, loses both the bout and his life. All but Mrs. Hudson
and her colleagues, Holmes and Watson, are convinced the fighter's death
was an accident. The Baker Street trio travels to McLellan Manor in
Yorkshire to sort through the numerous people who have reason to
celebrate Mackenzie's death and the opportunity to cause it.
Complicating their investigation, Holmes and Watson are asked to become
protectors for Lily Langtry, and Mrs. Hudson to become her lady's maid,
when the famous beauty is threatened by her latest paramour, the
volatile George Baird. Before all can be resolved, Holmes will need to
lead a séance in which he will call on a ghost to solve a 35-year old
murder, and Mrs. Hudson will find herself in surprising alliance with
the Jersey Lily.