Movie Description:
Professor Moriarty has at long last been brought to trial for murder. But the "Napoleon of Crime" is acquitted after the court finds a lack ofsufficient evidence. Moments after the judge releases the defendant, Sherlock Holmes dashes into the courtroom with proof that will destory Moriarty`s alibiand send the professor to the gallows. Alas, he is too late and the criminal mastermind is set free. Moriarty wastes no time in plottinghis next crime, but in order tobe successful he must divert the attention of the Great Detective. Enter Miss Ann Brandon, who calls on Holmes and hiscompanion Dr. Watson after she and her brother receive anonymous letters containing a drawing of a man with an albatross hung around his neck, and adate written above the picture. Their father received the same baffling letteryears before and was found murdered on the date inscribed in his letter. Are these mysterious letters but erroneous distractions? Are they clues to a case irrelevant to the exploits of the evil Professor Moriarty? Or arethese portents of disaster inexorably linked to the master criminal`s plan to commit a crime that will shake the very foundation of the British Empire? It isfor Holmes and Watson to sort out this mystery and, hopefully,eliminate the menace of Professor Moriarty.
