Sir James Damery represented an outstanding client in consulting with Sherlock Holmes. Violet Melville is engaged to Austrian Baron Gruner, who murdered at least one wife, but the foolish and capricious Violet will not hear anything against him. If the marriage continues, the client is concerned about Violet's safety. Sherlock Holmes received help from Kitty Winter, a woman who was used and abandoned by a baron, to obtain Gruner's album, in which he documented his conquest and allowed Violet to view him with a genuine perspective