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The Engineer¡¯s Thumb

Chapter One

Dr. Watson, who no longer lived in the same house Sherlock Holmes, was awoken to find a new patient waiting for him. A young man had had a terrible experience during the night and needed a doctor and a detective. Dr. Watson looked after the man?s injured hand and discovered that his name was Mr. Victor Hatherly and that he was an engineer. The man believed that someone was trying to murder him.

Chapter Two

Dr. Watson took his patient to meet Sherlock Holmes. The hydraulic engineer told Holmes about a man called Colonel Lysander Stark who visited him yesterday. He asked Hatherly some very strange questions and made him promise not to tell anyone about his visit or the work he was being asked to do. Mr. Hatherly promised. Colonel Stark said that he will pay a lot of money for one night?s work.

Chapter Three

Mr. Hatherly asked about the work he had to do. He was told that the machine he was to look at was used in helping to mine a very valuable mineral. He traveled at night by train into the country to see the machine.

Chapter Four

A frightened woman tried to warn Mr. Hatherly that he was in danger. Hatherly was shown the machine and could quickly tell why it was not working properly. He realized he had been tricked and was very angry.

Chapter Five

Hatherly was trapped inside the machine and it looked as though he would be killed. Just before he was about to be crushed the frightened woman helped him escape. During his escape he was attacked by Colonel Stark with an axe. The colonel chopped off Hatherly?s thumb.

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Chapter Six

Hatherly was unconscious but when he recovered was amazed to find himself at Eyford Station. Holmes found an important clue in a newspaper article written about a year earlier. Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mr. Hatherly, and the police traveled back to Eyford Station. With the help of a map they tried to find the house where Hatherly was almost murdered.

Chapter Seven

Holmes surprised everyone by telling them where the house that Mr. Hatherly was taken to was. Mr. Hatherly found out the real reason for the press. Local firemen were surprised to find a human thumb and the mystery of how Hatherly got back to Eyford Station was solved.

The Empty House

Chapter One

Dr. Watson thought that Sherlock Holmes was dead. Because of his close friendship with the great detective, Dr. Watson continued to take an interest in the crimes reported in the newspaper. He tried to solve them in the way that Sherlock Holmes would have done. In this story, Watson began to tell us of the murder of Ronald Adair. He was a young man who liked to play cards and gamble for large sums of money.

Chapter Two

Dr. Watson investigated the crime scene at Park Lane but could not solve the crime. While there, he accidentally met a strange old bookseller who later came to Watson?s house. Watson was shocked to find that the old bookseller was none other than his old friend Sherlock Holmes! Holmes told Watson how he cheated death and had been travelling the world for nearly three years.

Chapter Three

Holmes had more surprises for Watson when he took him to an empty house opposite of 221B Baker Street. Once inside, Watson was amazed to see what looked like Sherlock Holmes moving about in the rooms where

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they used to live. Suddenly a man entered the dark room in which Holmes and Watson were waiting. He carried a false walking stick which is really a gun and shot the model of Sherlock Holmes.

Chapter Four

Holmes and Watson caught Colonel Moran and handed him over to Inspector Lestrade of the London police. Lestrade wanted to accuse Colonel Moran of trying to murder Sherlock Holmes but Holmes surprised everyone by telling the inspector that he had caught the killer of Ronald Adair. Holmes and Watson returned to their old home where Watson saw the model of Sherlock Holmes which was used to trick Colonel Moran. They also found the special bullet that was fired from an air rifle at the dummy of Sherlock Holmes.

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