Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb 👍🔪 (Learn English with a Short Story) [973]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Back by popular demand, here is another Sherlock Holmes short story on LEP. This one tells the suspenseful tale of a young engineer 👷 who accepts a well-paid but mysterious job. In classic horror movie style, he ignores so many red flags 🚩 and warnings ⚠️ and ends up paying the price for it! But, can Holmes and Watson make sure that justice is served? I tell the story and explain some details and words along the way. Story text and summaries available on the episode PDF.
Get the PDF with story text, vocabulary list and vocabulary quiz here 👉 https://teacherluke.co.uk/2026/01/26/sherlock-holmes-the-adventure-of-the-engineers-thumb-learn-english-with-a-short-story-973/
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | For more information, visit teacher luke.co.com.uk.uk.uk. |
| 0:15.1 | Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine out there in podcast land wherever you are, whichever part of podcast land you find yourself in at this very moment in time. Welcome back to the show. And so this one, in this episode, I want to tell you another short story. |
| 0:38.1 | I've done this loads of times before, right? |
| 0:40.6 | And I want to do another one. |
| 0:42.0 | But for some reason, this morning, this particular morning, I've been struggling. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know why. |
| 0:48.0 | I've been sitting here for over an hour trying to get this episode started. |
| 0:57.6 | And I've abandoned it about four times, |
| 1:00.3 | and I don't know quite why I'm struggling. |
| 1:05.6 | So let me just try and explain to you what's going on in my head, and then I'm going to give this one more try and actually do this properly. |
| 1:09.2 | So I love telling stories on the podcast and I think that you love |
| 1:13.7 | listening to them as well, right? I also really enjoy doing Sherlock Holmes stories. I like to do |
| 1:19.3 | lots of different types of stories, but I always come back to doing Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 1:23.4 | because I really enjoy them and I think that you enjoy them as well. I often get comments and |
| 1:28.9 | messages from listeners asking for more Sherlock Holmes stories and I'm very happy to oblige. |
| 1:34.3 | And so that is what I'm intending to do with this episode, right? But what's been going on? |
| 1:41.1 | Why have I been struggling? So I've got the text. I've prepared a text of a story. |
| 1:46.7 | It's the adventure of the engineer's thumb. |
| 1:49.7 | One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories from the first collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, |
| 1:56.4 | which is called the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
| 2:00.3 | All the stories in that are great. |
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