Wednesday, January 18, 2023

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb a Sherlock Holmes short story

"The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb” is a SherlockHolmes short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection. According to The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, it was Holmes’ 26th case chronologically.

 

According to Dr. Watson, it is one of only two cases that Watson brought to Holmes’ attention. Watson also notes in the opening paragraphs that it gave Holmes…

 

Fewer openings for those deductive methods of reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results.

 

Indeed! Other than the extraordinary event of the engineer having his thumb violently and severed, it’s a pretty boring case: very little clever banter, very little of Holmes’ fastidious observation and deductive logic.



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2 comments:

  1. Hamlette (Rachel)January 20, 2023 at 11:36 AM

    My kids find this story extremely creepy, while I find it a bit dull, like you. Whereas I just can't read "The Creeping Man" anymore because it freaks me out, whereas my kids think that one is ridiculous!

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