Jerome K. Kerome's Three Men in a Boat meets Sherlock Holmes London, the early 1890s. Jerome and his fox-terrier Montmorency have recently moved to a new set of rooms in Mrs Hudson's establishment in Baker Street. The tenant of the floor below has some anti-social habits, such as working with odiferous chemicals and, when bored, firing a revolver into his ceiling. But at least the rent is low. Jerome and his friends are planning their latest jaunt-and indulging their favourite pastime of bemoaning the inconveniences of modern nineteenth-century living-when Miss Briony Lodge calls at Baker Street to ask their help. Who is sending her orange pips? Whoever it is, they are getting closer by the day. When two, more sinister, strangers call, it becomes clear that the beautiful young schoolmistress is in deadly danger. But what match are a bank clerk, a lawyer's assistant, a dog and a novelist for a international gang of desperadoes? None whatsoever. It would take an intellect of Sherlock Holmes's proportions to set things to rights. Or maybe, perhaps, an otter. In this mash-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, their best-loved creations collide chaotically, with Mrs Hudson, as always, left to pick up the pieces.
