The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

By Arthur Conan Doyle and P. James Macaluso

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.

In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using only Lego® brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, the composition of the black and white drawings by Sidney Paget that accompanied the original publication of these adventures appearing in The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. Paget’s iconic illustrations are largely responsible for the popular image of Sherlock Holmes, including his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details never mentioned in the writings of Conan Doyle.

This uniquely illustrated collection, which features some of the most famous and enjoyable cases investigated by Sherlock Holmes and his devoted friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, including A Sandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League, is sure to delight Lego enthusiasts, as well as fans of the Great Detective, both old and new.

LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of Companies. The LEGO Group has not been involved in nor has it in any other way licensed or authorised the publication of this book.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB: One morning a young hydraulic engineer, Mr. Victor Hatherley, visits Dr. Watson’s surgery requiring medical attention as his thumb has been severed during a murderous attack. Watson dresses the wound and then takes his patient around to Baker Street to consult with Sherlock Holmes, who makes sense of the strange happeningsupon hearing the engineer’s story,butis unable to apprehend the criminals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MX Publishing
• Release date: Apr 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781780929019

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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One 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.