The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo is a 1996 graphic adventure game developed by Mythos Software and published by Electronic Arts. Holmes' brother Mycroft is caught in an explosion when his club, the Diogenes, is blown up. The player, first as Doctor Watson and then as Sherlock Holmes, investigates the explosion and discovers that it was not a gas leak but a bomb which was the cause. This leads them to investigate a case of espionage and the strange death of an
Diogenes Club writers developed and used the idea that the club was founded as a front for the British secret service. This may have its root in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", in which Mycroft Holmes is revealed to be the supreme and indispensable brain-trust behind the British government, who pieces together collective government secrets and offers advice on the best way to act. The idea was popularised by "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970), a 1970s motion picture directed by Billy Wilder, and has since been frequently used in pastiches of Conan Doyle's stories as well as the TV