title: Sherlock Holmes Box Set
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
description: Box set with original Sidney Paget Illustrations. Facsimile of the First Publication in the Strand Magazine. Includes: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
zlib_text: The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
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  The Adventure of the
  Cardboard Box
  By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
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  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
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