![]() ![]() Why is the commission top secret? And why does a woman try to persuade him to leave as soon as he arrives? Sherlock Holmes after hearing the bizarre story, naturally takes the case to find out these answers and more. He is to be paid well for his efforts, but things are not quite right. They soon learn that Mr Hatherley was engaged by a strange man to go and fix a hydraulic stamping machine somewhere in the middle of the English countryside. When the man, Mr Hatherley, replies, he suggests they go and speak to Sherlock Holmes. Dr Watson, as he is treating him, asks how the rather strange injury came about. The Adventure of The Engineer’s Thumb is the ninth story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleĪn injured man finds his way to Dr Watson’s surgery. ![]()
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