Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion
picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery
that will keep you up all night...
1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he's being threatened via the
new art of the moving image...
Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of motion picture projection, believes his
life is in danger. Twice he has been almost run down in the street by
the same mysterious carriage, and moreover, disturbing alterations have
been made to his lecture slides. These are closely guarded, yet just
before each lecture an unknown hand has defaced images depicting
Muybridge himself, which he has discovered, to his horror, only as he
projects them to his audience. As Holmes and Watson investigate, a
bewildering trail of clues only deepens the mystery, and meanwhile,
newspaper speculation reaches fever pitch. The great detective's
reputation is on the line, and may be ruined for good unless he can pick
apart a mystery centred the capturing, for the first time, of figures in
motion, and the wonders of the new cinematograph.