The adventure of the engineer's thumb
(2017)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2017
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781520084510 (electronic bk.) MWT11931038, 152008451X (electronic bk.) 11931038
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A young London engineer, contracted to service a hydraulic press at a country house, discovers that the owner is using the machine for illegal purposes. After confronting the owner, the engineer narrowly escapes death and loses a thumb when the owner turns on him. Holmes deduces the actual use of the machine and sets off to bring the evildoers to justice
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