Eric Porter

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.

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.