Sherlock Holmes and the Engineer's Thumb

A terrified young engineer arrives at Baker Street in the dead of night, his hand freshly bandaged and his thumb mysteriously missing. He tells Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson a bizarre story: he was hired for a secret job at a remote country house, sworn to silence, and led into a strange hydraulic press by a group of nervous strangers. When he realizes the machine is meant to crush him alive, he barely escapes with his life… but not without a gruesome injury.As Holmes investigates, the case unravels into a dangerous plot involving counterfeiters, deception, and a desperate midnight escape. A tense and atmospheric mystery from the pen of Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb” is one of the most chilling cases in the chronicles of Sherlock Holmes.