Plot summary

Sherlock Holmes confronts the most repugnant adversary of his career in Charles Augustus Milverton, an art dealer by profession but a master blackmailer by occupation who often waits years for the best moment to squeeze London's high society and line his already engorged pockets. As this man generally operates within the law, Sherlock finds reason alone insufficient to bring him down, yet brought down he must be before further reputations, careers and lives of Londoners are ruined. And to that end, Sherlock dates a housemaid.—statmanjeff