Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock For Kids: The Engineer's Thumb
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Come join Holmes and Watson as they solve the mystery of the missing racehorse, Silver Blaze, in a child-friendly, twenty-first century English and with the seamier side of Victorian life left out.
Ideal for children to get started with the world's most famous detective.
Age range 9-12
Mark Williams
Mark S. Williams (PhD, Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines) served in ministry to Muslims for twenty years (1990–2010) with SIM in the Philippines. He published articles in the Journal of Asian Mission and Missiology and was a contributing author in Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities (William Carey Library).
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Sherlock Holmes - Mark Williams
Classics For Kids
Sherlock For Kids
The Engineer’s Thumb
adapted for children from
the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle original
by
Mark Williams
© 2015 Mark Williams
Published by Odyssey.
ISBN: 978-1-908961-89-1
Table of Contents
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Thank you for reading.
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I have known Sherlock Holmes a long time, and lived with him for some time at his home in 221b Baker Street. But after I got married I of course moved into a house of my own, and carried on my work as a doctor from my surgery near Paddington Station.
Being one of London’s busiest train stations there were often accidents or people taken ill there that were sent to me for medical care, so I was often kept busy quite apart from my regular patients who came to my surgery.
So it was one day in the summer of 1889, when I was woken by my maid to tell me there was a patient in the consulting room needing my attention.
He