12:37 14 July 2011
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In cinemas: 16 December
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Eddie Marsan, Jared Harris, Stephen Fry
When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade, points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder - a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.
Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemenÂ’s club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood.
It is there that Holmes encounters Sim, a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the princeÂ’s murder makes her the killerÂ’s next target.
Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.
The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction - all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.