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    The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
    The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
    The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
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    The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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    • 3/5
      This is not Sherlock Holmes at his best. The resolution of the story includes a long information dump in the form of a letter written by the guilty person. Sherlock Holmes isn’t supposed to need those.
    • 5/5
      This is the first classic detective story that I have ever read. Two factors influenced my decision to read this short story: 1. The title grabbed my attention and intrigued me! 2. I thought it was time to read a classic detective story, and I immediately decided to try Sherlock Holmes.

      I was certainly not disappointed. I had no idea what to expect, but to be honest, the idea of two human ears being delivered in the cardboard box was not one of them!
      I found it most interesting in the way Holmes and Watson went about their business. I agree with another reviewer who mentioned that it was remarkable what clues were deduced from some packaging and the ears themselves!

      When Holmes became aware of the lifestyle of Miss Susan Cushing, and the further clues themselves, it didn't take him long to deduce that this was going to be a family related affair. So it soon became apparent that adultery, jealousy and drink, all had a major part to play, in this sad and gruesome, but nevertheless, entertaining and interesting plot.

      If like me, you have never read a classic detective story before, but would like to, I can fully recommend and endorse starting with a short story like this. I'm already looking forward to reading my next detective story!

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    Title: The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

    Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

    Posting Date: October 23, 2008 [EBook #2344]

    Release Date: October, 2000

    [Last updated: December 8, 2011]

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    The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents. It is, however, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensational from the criminal, and a chronicler is left in the dilemma that he must either sacrifice details which are essential to his statement and so give a false impression of the problem, or he must use matter which chance, and not choice, has provided him with. With this short preface I shall turn to my notes of what proved to be a strange, though a peculiarly terrible, chain of events.

    It was a blazing hot day in August. Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye. It was hard to believe that these were the same walls which loomed so gloomily through the fogs of winter. Our blinds were half-drawn, and Holmes lay curled upon the sofa, reading and re-reading a letter which he had received by the morning post. For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no hardship. But the morning paper was uninteresting. Parliament had risen. Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday, and as to my companion, neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him. He loved to lie in the very center of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime. Appreciation of nature found no place among his many gifts, and his only change was when he turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country.

    Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion's voice broke in upon my thoughts:

    You are right, Watson, said he. It does seem a most preposterous way of settling a dispute.

    Most preposterous! I exclaimed, and then suddenly realizing how he had echoed the inmost thought of my soul, I sat up in my chair and stared at him in blank amazement.

    What is this, Holmes? I cried. This is beyond anything which I could have imagined.

    He laughed heartily at my perplexity.

    You remember, said he, "that some little time ago when I read you

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