Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases - Conan Doyle, Arthur

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.