The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141395516

The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb.

Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN: 9780748724833

Pupils will meet the literature requirements of the National Curriculum by studying these collections of short stories by pre-twentieth century authors.Readers of all abilities will gain increased comprehension of the stories from the integrated support material on every page.Pupils' interest is maintained by the large format and simple layout.A more complete picture of the authors is provided through completion of a number of 'compare and contrast' exercises, reinforcement activities and ovwerview sections at the end of each story.The National Curriculum requirement to read stories from other cultures and traditions is also covered by books in the series.

The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb

The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2024-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6561333519

In "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", an engineer named Victor Hatherley is hired for a mysterious job involving a dangerous hydraulic press. After a harrowing night, he narrowly escapes with his life and a missing thumb. He seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to uncover the truth behind the strange events and his employer's real intentions.

The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780929021

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.

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2016-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536804430

The entire series of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle is now available in large print, using the best practices for senior readers and those who are visually impaired. Each story includes the original Sherlock Holmes mystery as well as a note from the series editor, Craig Stephen Copland, the author of the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries books. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb is an interesting tale in which murderous thieves, who are possibly German spies, get away with murder and a major crime. A mysterious beautiful woman who appears to be the mistress of the villain risks her life to save that of Holmes's newest client. These books are great gifts for someone you care about who needs a larger size print to be able to enjoy these wonderful stories.

Il caso del pollice dell’ingegnere/The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

Il caso del pollice dell’ingegnere/The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Leone Editore
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8892968025

Victor Hatherley, giovane ingegnere idraulico, giunge nello studio del dottor Watson perché il suo pollice è stato tranciato di netto. Tutto era iniziato così: l’ingegnere era stato incaricato da un oscuro colonnello, Lysander Stark, di controllare il funzionamento di una pressa idraulica, ma ben presto si era reso conto che quella richiesta nascondeva qualcosa di losco… In questo racconto dallo stile inconfondibile, la solita perspicacia di Holmes condurrà alla soluzione del mistero, ma stavolta non assicurerà i colpevoli alla giustizia.

A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544680552

Another amazing Sherlock Holmes mystery. This time it revolves around the unfortunate engineer and his missing thumb. Another great read!

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre:
ISBN:

Short story. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly served to weaken the effect.It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence.