The world's greatest detective faces one of the history's greatest monsters: the knife-wielding terror of Victorian London, Jack the Ripper Grotesque murders are being committed on the streets of Whitechapel. Sherlock Holmes believes they are the skillful work of one man-a man who earns the gruesome epithet of Jack the Ripper. As the investigation proceeds, Holmes realizes that the true identity of the Ripper puts much more at stake than just catching a killer . . .