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    The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    Audiobook45 minutes

    The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

    Written by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Narrated by Edward Raleigh

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudio Holdings
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9781601362483
    The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    Author

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859. He trained to be a doctor at Edinburgh University and eventually set up a medical practice in Southsea. During the quiet periods between patients, he turned his hand to writing, producing historical novels such as Micah Clarke and adventure yarns including The Lost World, as well as four novels and fifty-six stories involving his most celebrated creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Doyle was knighted in 1902. In later life he devoted much of his time to his belief in Spiritualism, using his writing and celebrity as a means of providing funds to support activities in this field. He died in 1930.

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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.