The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

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"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes examining the ears, 1893 illustration by Sidney Paget in The Strand Magazine
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Detective fiction short stories
Publication
Published in	Strand Magazine
Publication date	January 1893
Chronology
Series	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
The Adventure of Silver Blaze   The Adventure of the Yellow Face

"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in January 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 14 January 1893.^[1] It is the second of twelve stories collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and the second of the eight stories from His Last Bow in most American versions.