The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (film) invited to The Diogenes Club by Sherlock's older brother Mycroft. The club hosts the most unsociable men of London, and they have banned talking. Once there, Mycroft, asks him to help Lady Eva Blackwell. She is being blackmailed by one of the most villainous men of London, Charles Augustus Milverton who is demanding £7,000 for some letters he has stolen from her, threatening to release them to the public if she does not pay the ransom. Upon their release, the letters would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement. Sherlock agrees to help her. The same day,
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Friends Investigate. Mycroft Holmes, Dr John Watson and Professor George Challenger also appear in the same book. Boris Akunin's short story "The Prisoner of the Tower, or A Short But Beautiful Journey of Three Wise Men" in the "Jade Rosary Beads" compilation describes Holmes and Erast Fandorin's race to thwart a devious extortion plan by Arsène Lupin. Author Nancy Springer writes a series of novels of the adventures of Enola Holmes, the much younger teenage sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. Upon their mother's disappearance, Enola discovers that she in fact left of her own volition according to a carefully devised