1985

Jedburgh heads to Scotland with the stolen plutonium while Craven awaits the inevitable end.

Craven confronts Emma’s killer but is shot. Suffering from an apparent breakdown, he becomes determined to gain access to Northmoor nuclear plant.

Craven and Jedburgh follow the GAIA’s route into Northmoor nuclear plant, but others are determined to stop them.

A notice in a newspaper seeks red-headed men, inviting them to join a league which will pay them well – and Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker who responds, finds he is hired and paid generously for spending four hours a day copying an encyclopedia in long hand. When the league is suddenly dissolved, Holmes is asked to find out what has been going on, and he quickly suspects crime. Indeed, behind this curious arrangement lurks Holmes’s arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.

Dr Trevelyan calls on Holmes on behalf of his friend Blessington, after a Russian father and son vanish during a consultation. Blessington knows of no one who wishes him ill, but he is found hanged the next day. Holmes investigates, with advice from Watson.

The French government sends for Holmes when the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. Holmes swiftly decides he is dealing with a mastermind – and none other than his old enemy Professor Moriarty himself.Holmes foils Moriarty’s plans to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece and trails him to Switzerland, where they meet and fight to the death above the famous waterfall at Reichenbach.