The Blackmail Ledger

Audit Milverton's trade: what the market in reputations paid, and what his victims could bear.

Milverton paid footmen for letters and priced them against ruin. Set his demand against a victim's means and see the squeeze as he calculated it.

Drawn from The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1904) — read the summary & analysis, or try The Burglary at Appledore Towers, this story's game. More at the Game Room and the tool bench.