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Adventure of the Cardboard Box, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
Language: English
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
By
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
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
by Arthur Conan Doyle