Book details
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
Korean edition · 기술자의 엄지손가락
왓슨의 진료실을 찾아온 젊은 기사의 사연으로 시작되는 단편.
Read this edition →An opening sentence
OF all the problems which have been submitted to my friend Mr.
Series and reading order
Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · 1892 · Short story 9
Holmes and Watson follow small clues through the cases of Baker Street, one story at a time.
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- Edition
- English original · en-v1 · 2026-10-11
- Editorial notes
- The full English story is retained, including the calling card and missing-person advertisement. Illustrations, captions and printed page numbers are omitted; whitespace is normalized. Original time and distance statements, names and technical descriptions are preserved.
- Work
- The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Basis for original work rights
- A work by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), first published in 1892. The original is beyond South Korea's copyright term of 70 years after the author's death. The 1892 US edition used as the English source is also out of copyright in the United States.
- Source edition
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1892, pp. 205–228
- Transcription and attribution
- Project Gutenberg #48320. The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at pgdp.net, from images provided by The Internet Archive/American Libraries, as credited in Project Gutenberg eBook 48320. Source credit only; this edition is independently prepared.
- Source URL
- https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48320/pg48320-images.html
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