Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin, and Irene Adler meet up in London only to
find a strange chess problem in the Times signed by The Black Friar.
It's written in an unknown code which Sherlock is eager to solve. The
next day, the city is rocked by the news of a rich merchant found
murdered. On the merchant's desk was scarlet rose: the same flower used
as the calling card for a brazen criminal group that haunted the streets
of London twenty years ago. Could the Scarlet Rose Gang be back?