However when they arrive, the house is on fire, and the criminals have escaped. Holmes deduces that the press is being used to produce counterfeit coins, and works out its location. Category:The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Media in category 'The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb' The following 12 files are in this category, out of 12 total. He confronted his employer, who attacked him, and during his escape his thumb is chopped off. In 'The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb,' Sherlock Holmes is approached by a young hydraulic engineer who has recently been the victim of a strange and ter. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. Hatherley had been hired for 50guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1892. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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