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Summary
Background
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
“The Red-Headed League”
“A Case of Identity”
“The Boscombe Valley Mystery”
“The Five Orange Pips”
“The Man with the Twisted Lip”
“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
“The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”
“The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor”
“The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”
“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
Character Analysis
Themes
Symbols & Motifs
Important Quotes
Essay Topics
Chapter Summaries & Analyses
In the summer of 1889, Watson receives an unusual patient. A train station worker brings a young man missing his thumb. The injury is recent, and the patient is distraught. After treating him, Watson takes the man to meet Holmes.
The patient, Victor Hatherley, is an orphan, living alone. By profession, he is a hydraulic engineer and is in the process of establishing a private practice. His first client in a long time is a strange man who needs a consultation on a hydraulic machine. The offered payment is extremely generous, but the conditions of the job are extremely peculiar. The young man is required to come at night to a house in the countryside in complete secrecy. The job is suspicious, but the pay is too good to pass, so the young man agrees and does as he is told.
Once at the house, he is taken to a huge press, the size of a room, which is malfunctioning. He is able to quickly discover the problem but realizes that the setup is different from what his client had told him about the machine’s purpose. At that point, his client attempts to kill him by locking him inside the press chamber and activating the machine, but a mysterious German woman, residing at the house, helps him escape through the window.
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Case Of Identity
A Case Of Identity
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Scandal in Bohemia
A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow
His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle