Sherlock in Chains

Baring-Gould ends Holmes' life in 1957, but it's unsatisfactory. Holmes dying cold and alone on the Sussex coast, the word "Irene" the last he said? It sounds suspicious. No other sources attest to it. This goes a small way toward explaining where Holmes went in 1957, and how he returned.

We pick up with Holmes after his supposed death, imprisoned by an unknown group in a black-ops prison. He is never allowed to see outside his tiny cell, and every day he is confronted and beaten with the same question: “Who killed Jack the Ripper?”

It is, after all, a truth universally acknowledged than a man in a cage must try to escape…