The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases
By: by Arthur Conan Doyle
Edition: printing (001)
Publisher: Penguin English Library
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780141395500
Subjects: Fiction; English Detective and mystery stories; John H. Watson (Fictitious character)
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Full of macabre twists and eerie settings, these tales see Holmes and Watson facing bewildered detectives, dishonest butlers and devious rogues to solve a host of cases with their inimitable powers of deduction.

An engineer on a secret mission survives with his life but without his thumb; a murderer with a pince-nez vanishes without an escape route; a prize-winning horse and his owner mysteriously disappear the night before a big race; and a cheating student hides a curious advantage.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: A Case of Identity (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 52; label: 4
title: The Adventure of the Three Students (The Return of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 82; label: 5
title: The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 103; label: 6
title: The Adventure of Silver Blaze (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 143; label: 7
title: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 173; label: 8
title: The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (The Return of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 198; label: 9
title: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (The Return of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 225; label: 10
title: The Boscombe Valley Mystery (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 254; label: 11
title: The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 283; label: 12
title: The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (The Return of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 308; label: 13
title: The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)
pagenum: 335; title: Unwanted Hero by Ivor Brown
pagenum: 359