In 1897, Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from his brother Mycroft asking him and Dr. Watson to investigate a singer performing at a birthday party held by construction baron Sir Melvyn Bromsby for his daughter Lavinia.

Holmes also connects the case to the disappearance of Veronica Davenport and Jeffries, actors who co-owned a theatre troupe Bromsby bought.

Holmes tricks Herrington into confessing by falsely claiming Scotland Yard will find evidence of the murders and they're arrested.

Music within the game consists of compositions by Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Silver Earring is a point-and-click (mouse controlled) third person adventure in which the players play as both Holmes and Watson.

Throughout the game, Holmes's tools of the trade (a magnifying glass, measuring tape and test tube) are in inventory.

As Holmes, the players spend time searching for important clues, most of which the bumbling police force will miss.

According to Christopher Kellner of German publisher DTP Entertainment, The Case of the Silver Earring achieved "incredibly high sales" in its first three weeks in Germany,[3] and became a "big commercial success" in the region.

[3] Silver Earring's publisher in Britain, Digital Jesters, likewise reported "very promising" early sales figures by late 2004.

[9] Frogwares estimated global sales of roughly 50,000 units for Silver Earring by January 2005, a number it considered strong for the genre but unsatisfactory overall.

[11] The first four Sherlock Holmes titles from Frogwares—Mummy, Silver Earring, The Awakened and Nemesis—totaled roughly 1.5 million global sales by February 2009.