When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive....
希斯克利夫（提摩西·道尔顿 Timothy Dalton 饰）和美丽的凯瑟琳（安娜·考尔德-马歇尔 Anna Calder-Marshall 饰）彼此相爱，但最终，迫于现实的压力，凯瑟琳最终离开了希斯克利夫，嫁给了门当户对的林顿（詹姆斯·科辛斯 James Cossins 饰）。感情受挫的希斯克利夫黯然神伤，离开了伤心地到外面打拼。...
