Laura and her English father live in a remote castle in the countryside in Styria. One day, a carriage accident in front of the castle provides her with a companion.
Richard is accepted in a very selective class at a Vermont college. His recollections of this period reveal that he and his friends have a secret: they murdered one of their own. But it is just the tip of the iceberg.
Mortimer, a close friend of the late Charles Baskerville, who died in mysterious circumstances, pays a visit to Sherlock Holmes to tell him about the curse plaguing the Baskerville family.