The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases (Broché)

Full of macabre twists and eerie settings, these tales see Holmes and Watson facing bewildered detectives, dishonest butlers and devious rogues to solve a host of cases with their inimitable powers of deduction. An engineer on a secret mission survives with his life but without his thumb ; a murderer with a pince-nez vanishes without an escape route ; a prize-winning horse and his owner mysteriously disappear the night before a big race ; and a cheating student hides a curious advantage.