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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by Edward Raleigh
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When an Engineer is offered a magnificent fee for a midnight job and a vow of secrecy, he probably should have second thoughts. In the end, he ended up paying a smaller price for his blind trust than others intended.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of Dr. Watson’s patients who works at Paddington Station brings him another patient one morning, a passenger who had just arrived at the station missing his thumb. The young man has a strange story to tell, and Dr. Watson takes him to his friend Sherlock Holmes. The young man is a hydraulic engineer. Work has been scarce, so he jumped at an opportunity that presented itself the day before to examine a machine in a Berkshire village used for processing fuller’s earth. The fee offered seems too good to be true. That should have been the engineer’s first cue to decline the job. He goes where he’s instructed, and he pays for his experience with the loss of his thumb. Sherlock Holmes sees behind the bizarre events of the night before to determine their cause. Conan Doyle uses the descending ceiling trope in this story. Perhaps it wasn’t as much of a cliché then as it has become now.