After Rev. Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of Ingram, a man with whom he had a recent and very public disagreement, he calls to his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to help him find the real killer.
In 1885, Lord Richard Marbury, a liberal stalwart in Parliament, sends his young daughter Alicia to Brighton to spend her vacation with his old professor, The Reverend Charles Dodgson. Alicia, however, is kidnapped from the train platform in Brighton by her father's political enemies. A chance meeting with a young doctor on his honeymoon, one Arthur Conan Doyle, results in this unlikely duo working to rescue Alicia from a most unpleasant fate.