A reasonable outing about a young engineer and a woman who is discovered by Holmes and Watson as they visit the great outdoors. The man is beaten and the girl is unconscious. They are brought to London to 221B Baker Street. There, the man tells the story. It seems he is an expert on hydraulics. He was hired to repair a press. The man who hires him has a henchman, a European. He also has a heart condition that limits his activities. It turns out that the press has been used to make counterfeit coins. The young woman, who is a housekeeper and mute, keeps warning him away. Suspicious, he begins snooping and finds himself in the press, ready to be crushed by the huge machine. I will not spoil things but it is reasonably suspenseful and a decent enough story.
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The Case of the Shoeless Engineer
Prismark1020 August 2021
Based on the short story, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are walking in the countryside. They see an injured man carrying an unconscious woman.
The man is Victor Haterly, an engineer hired by Colonel Stark to fix a hydraulic press.
The woman was what he believed a mute housekeeper in the Colonel's home who tried to warn Hately that he was in danger.
Holmes believes that Stark and his associates were running a counterfeiting operation.
This is another episode that comes across well because of its origins to a Conan Doyle story. You can see the difference between this and when the series tries to do its own thing as it tends to be bogged down with comedy.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are walking in the countryside. They see an injured man carrying an unconscious woman.
The man is Victor Haterly, an engineer hired by Colonel Stark to fix a hydraulic press.
The woman was what he believed a mute housekeeper in the Colonel's home who tried to warn Hately that he was in danger.
Holmes believes that Stark and his associates were running a counterfeiting operation.
This is another episode that comes across well because of its origins to a Conan Doyle story. You can see the difference between this and when the series tries to do its own thing as it tends to be bogged down with comedy.
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