I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes' short stories, the series where we delve into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective,

following his keen mind and unerring instincts from the first subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation.

This time we embark on The Adventure of the Engineer's thumb, one of Holmes' most unsettling

cases, where greed and desperation collide in a powder keg of deception.

When a young man stumbles into Dr. Watson's surgery at dawn, what appears to be a workplace

injury soon reveals itself

as something far more sinister. A midnight train journey, a mysterious German industrialist,

a house with secrets behind every door, and a machine with a nefarious purpose, all pieces

of a puzzle only Sherlock can solve.

From the Noiser Network, this is The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, part one.

Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes for

solution during the

years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice,

that of Mr. Hathalie's thumb and that of Colonel Warburton's madness. Of these, the latter may

have afforded a finer field for an acute and original observer,

but the other was so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details,

that it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record,

even if it gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of reasoning

by which he achieved such remarkable results.

The story has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but like all such narratives,

its effect is much less striking when set forth en bloc in a single half column of print

than when the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the

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