It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London.
Mycroft Holmes-now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at
the War Office-has no interest in the killings; however his brother
Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to
the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration. When a
ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus
Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a
tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that
Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds
himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a
suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a
trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of
the London docks. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese
woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him
to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his
beloved Britain's coffers. As the stakes rise, the brothers find
that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime
of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic
consequences...
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