Sherlock Holmes is contacted by Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain the famous writer, and asked to help find his missing friend.
Holmes travels to America where he discovers a gang, led by Mister Bleak, which hangs anyone who gets in their way or worse yet, uses his skills in dark magic to make something horrible happen to them.
Will Mark Twain be able to find his friend or is he one of the many that Mister Bleak has hung from the Bleak Tree or worse?
Danger and adventure in early America that has an explosive climax!