Sherlock Holmes and His American Adventures

From Southampton to New York: The famous master detective Sherlock Holmes and his medical counterpart Doctor Watson have barely tended to the wounds from their last case when the next adventure already awaits them. What was actually intended as relaxation in the middle of the open Atlantic becomes a 'working trip' for Holmes and Watson with much investigative work. Two masters of criminal history on the high seas bound for America.

Having arrived safely in New York, Holmes' personal physician Doctor Watson is looking forward to some comfortable vacation days in the "New World." But that's not to be. Newspaper reports confirm that a terrible fire from the recent past has not yet been fully resolved. Sherlock Holmes wouldn't be particularly concerned about this, if more than one hundred and fifty people hadn't perished at the time. When the New York Police would rather know nothing more about the matter, Holmes becomes alert, and before he knows it, both are in the middle of their next criminal case.

Sherlock Holmes has learned by chance from the New York Times that the New York Police are still investigating the unsolved fire in a textile factory, in which over one hundred and fifty seamstresses lost their lives because they couldn't escape the building from the flames. When Holmes is approached about this by the husband of a woman who is still hospitalized with injuries, he agrees to inspect the accident site. Naturally, he promises his partner and personal physician Doctor Watson "solemnly" not to take on any new criminal cases during their vacation together. But when Holmes arrives at the burned factory, he must discover that the accident site is actually a crime scene, in which the New York Police might not be entirely uninvolved.

When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson only by chance escape an arson attack at the Waldorf Hotel, they are glad to have found new lodgings in the apartment of Hampton Bank. Director Benjamin Hampton, who still feels indebted to Holmes, is pleased that both are now apparently safe from the long arm of retribution by the New York Police. For precisely this reason, he confronts Holmes with a case requiring special care: a secret banking meeting in the state of Georgia was supposed to remain secret. But when one of the participants doesn't return to New York, that plan fails, and Hampton sets his tenants Holmes and Watson on the case. Once again, no 'vacation in America' for the two friends from London...