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Autumn 1888: London is shaken by a brutal series of murders. In an effort to put himself in the mind of Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes' drug binges become increasingly worse. Finally, he collapses in Scotland Yard's forensic department in front of Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade. When the young Marian Sutherland visits Holmes at 221B Baker Street and asks for help, this comes in very handy for his friend Dr. Watson, who hopes that this will distract Holmes from the Ripper murders. Holmes actually has an interesting mystery to solve. Marian Sutherland's fiancé Hosmer Angel has disappeared without a trace just before the wedding. But who is this Hosmer Angel anyway? Meanwhile, Rahel Howells' situation in the London underworld is becoming increasingly dangerous. Joseph Harrison blackmails her and demands that she help him rob the underworld organization... Even before the missing bride in the short story "The Noble Bachelor" - part of the episode "Nora Craina" in our series "Sherlock Holmes: Legends" - Arthur Conan Doyle made a groom disappear in the short story "A Case of Identity". "A Case of Identity" first appeared in September 1891 in the "Strand Magazine" and was then published around a year later together with eleven other cases in the book "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". In German-speaking countries, "A Case of Identity" is known under the titles "A Question of Identity", "The Mysterious Groom", "The Missing Groom", "A Case of Identity" or simply as "A Case of Clever Deception". ( sherlockholmes.fandom.com) – In our radio play series “Sherlock Holmes: Legends” we let the story take place in early October 1888, shortly after the infamous “double incident” on September 30, 1888, when two brutally mutilated victims of Jack the Ripper were found. (Eric Zerm, manuscript author)