: The culprit promises the peace archaeologist more of an inheritance to remove him from the apartment where the machine that prints counterfeit money is hidden. Sherlock Holmes exposes and catches the criminal.

Sherlock Holmes seeks help from attorney John Garrydeb, an American living in London.

Alexander Garideb, his namesake from Kansas, made a great fortune. Having no relatives, he turned to John Garrideb as a man with such a rare surname, asking him to find someone else named Harrideb. He will share his entire fortune if he finds three men.

John Garrydeb combed the whole of America, but did not find anyone. Finally, in England, he found Nathan Garrideb, who has no male relatives. John Garrydeb asks the great detective to help find a third.

Holmes agrees, but does not believe a single word of his client. He meets with Nathan Garrideb, an elderly archaeologist who rarely leaves the house. Nathan Garideb became interested in the opportunity to receive a solid inheritance. Holmes inspects his collection, but there is nothing significant in it. Here appears John Garrideb with the news that a third heir has been found, and now all three need to go to Birmingham to receive an inheritance.Nathan does not want to make such a long trip, but Holmes persuades him to go.

The great detective establishes that John Garrideb is the “Evans killer,” the most dangerous criminal. The great detective learns that earlier in the apartment that Nathan Garrideb rents, there lived a bandit killed by Evans.

The next day, Holmes, hiding in an apartment, catches a criminal who hid a printing press and fake money there. Evans made up the inheritance story to remove Mr. Garrideb from the apartment. Unfortunately, due to the shattered hopes of an inheritance, Nathan Garrideb ends up in a psychiatric hospital.