Summary for pages 182-321 "Sherlock Holmes"

Summaries:

The Speckled Band:
The setting of the story is at Holmes's office, basically one of the most intriguing past cases that Holmes has solved. On their visit to a man who had reported a lady in his apartment, they went and looked to check who she was and what had happen. On entering her apartment they were shocked of how she was, dressed in black, a veil covering her face, and trembling. As they find out that she was shocked from news from her family that there has been sudden disappearance of her 2 grand kids. As Holmes goes to her hometown to ask about the disappearance, no one wanted to say anything, just from Holmes perspective he could already tell that the person behind all this was a citizen from this town. At the end of the story, Holmes solves the case and figures out that everyone in the village just wanted to shock the old woman and make her worry until she dies, so they could get all her inheritance from her will early.


The Engineer's Thumb
 The start of the story is when a man suddenly walks into the room and tells that there has been an incident with one of his coworkers, has lost his thumb so suddenly. As they go to meet with the man who has lost his thumb he found out that the man was so shocked because he saw his thumb get cut out, but didn't feel anything. Nor did he see where his thumb went, as Holmes start their mystery finding they find out that the end of the story that a man called Dr. Drownor has been behind many cases like this in different cities all over the country. And that he has been collecting different people's thumbs.

There is a second novel so this is just the first......