The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- First published
- 1997
- Editions
- 9
- Subjects
- hydraulic presses, Fuller's earth, thumbs, counterfeit money, Fiction, general
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Key facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective fiction short stories
- Published in
- Strand Magazine
- Publication date
- March 1892
- Series
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in March 1892. Within the narrative of the story, Dr. Watson notes that this is one of only two cases which he personally brought to the attention of Sherlock Holmes.
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