Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth. In these four intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson investigate the strange events that caused a hydraulic engineer to lose his thumb; solve the mystery of an aristocrat's missing wife; help a banker who is concerned about a valuable treasure and advises a governess with a very odd employer. The stories are: 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb'; 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor'; 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet' and 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches'.