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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The story was first published in "Strand Magazine" in March 1892. Dr. Watson notes that this is one of only two cases which he personally brought to the attention of Sherlock Holmes.
Synopsis.
The story, set in 1889, mainly consists of
probably the single most comprehensive screen adaptation of the Holmes canon, the Granada series nevertheless left nineteen stories unadapted after Sherlock Holmes actor Jeremy Brett's sudden death in 1995. These stories comprise two of the novellas and seventeen of the short stories. These are:
- "A Study in Scarlet"
- "A Case of Identity"
- "The Five Orange Pips"
- "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"
- "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"
- "The Adventure of