One evening, Colonel Clifton is engrossed in a horror story he was reading, being passionate about tales of ghosts. Soon after the book was finished, Clifton and Miss Partridge's night is troubled by strange goings-on.could the house be haunted? Our friend cannot believe it. So he leads an investigation in order to discover the bad joker.
Ex-agent of the secret service and colonel to Her most gracious Majesty, Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton, has become an amateur detective. Scotland Yard consider this excellent old hand insightful as the illustrious Sherlock Holmes! Without ever losing an ounce of his British touch, he resolves complex enigmas for the police and thwarts the plans of unscrupulous crooks.