Everyone is familiar with the astute and eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes, but only a few people know that his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was far from inferior to his pipe-smoking ace detective. Doyle once worked as a ship’s doctor and fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa. He was interested in mysticism and spiritualism and undertook numerous trips on the trail of the occult. In Raimon Weber’s breathtaking series The Secret Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the world-famous author himself becomes the detective. In each of the five episodes, Doyle encounters a horrific world that defies the imagination. His first case takes him to a dark, almost forgotten lake in Scotland where the Monster of Tyron Castle awaits him…

The year is 1913. The crew of a lonely research station far north of the Arctic Circle scatters in panic. Their terror drives them to commit suicide. What could such experienced men have had to endure in the horrific wilderness to drive them to this? In this breathtaking second case in The Secret Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the world-famous detective travels to Spitsbergen by freighter and encounters the last surviving member of the research expedition. Almost insane, the latter can utter only one word, but what lies behind it? Arthur Conan Doyle and his companions must brave an icy world rife with ghostly myths and dangers in order to unravel the cryptic mystery…