A study in murder

Germany, 1917. Major John Watson serves as the medical officer for British prisoners held in a infamous camp deep inside the country. The Allied blockade has left the camp's rations dangerously thin, so when a newcomer is found dead, most of the men assume he was killed for the aid package he carried. Watson is not convinced. Small wrongnesses in the camp keep nagging at him, and he senses that the death belongs to something larger.

When the authorities claim to have found an escape plan in Watson's hut, he is locked away in solitary confinement. The move suggests that his questions have struck a vulnerable point. If he is going to expose the terrible crimes taking place behind the wire, he has to get out before he is permanently silenced. His only hope lies in an unlikely source: guidance from Sherlock Holmes, offered from a great distance.