Sherlock Special: 10 Major Things We Learnt From The New Trailer
2. It's Called The Abominable Bride
We now finally know the actual title of the special and it is pleasingly melodramatic... The Abominable Bride!
While this is not cribbed from a title of one of the original Doyle stories, it is derived from his work - as Moffat and Gatiss can never resist slipping in a sneaky reference. In short story The Musgrave Ritual, Holmes refers to the case of "Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife."
Elsewhere in the trailer, we get a glimpse of a crazed woman in a wedding dress who is firing two pistols into the street. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that this woman is most probably the Bride of the title.