# The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930

Genre: Detective Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2344

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Adventure+of+the+Cardboard+Box+Doyle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 te...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventure-of-the-cardboard-box-2344/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventure-of-the-cardboard-box-2344/chapters/2/index.md)