Counterfeit Detective, The

An American professor discovers the diaries of John Ledbury, known as the counterfeit detective, a minor poet who, in Victorian London, is employed to reply to the mail that comes addressed to Sherlock Holmes at 221b Baker Street. Through the diaries he unearths a series of baffling unsolved murders. He travels to England and Scotland but he realises that, in order to solve the mystery, he has to travel further, back through time itself.