It is 1896. Mrs. Hudson and her colleagues are traveling to Athens to
attend the first Olympiad in more than 2000 years. Indeed, Holmes is to
participate in the foils competition as a member of Great Britain's
Olympic team. But the trip is more than just fun and games. The three
members of London's first and foremost consulting detective agency are,
in fact, engaged in a delicate bit of undercover work on behalf of Queen
and country. They are to secure a letter being sent by courier to Queen
Victoria from her daughter, the Dowager Empress of Germany. Peace
between the two nations may well depend on the contents of that letter.
They arrive to find both the courier and the wife of the British
Ambassador shot dead in the Ambassador's residence. The letter and the
Ambassador are nowhere to be found. They discover, too, that Inspector
Lestrade is already in Athens investigating the sale of fake antiquities
to the wife of the Ambassador. The Baker Street trio has the ten days of
the Olympiad to recover the critical letter, capture a double murderer,
and uncover the secret behind the scheme to pass off copies of Greek
antiquities as genuine--all while Holmes seeks to dispatch his fencing
competition and win an Olympic medal.