Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are hired by the King of Bohemia to retrieve an indiscreet photograph from the American actress and singer, Irene Adler. She is blackmailing his highness hoping to ruin the upcoming royal marriage.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes. |
