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In the story, the police ask the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to help in the investigation of a strange case. A single middle-aged woman named Susan Cushing receives a cardboard box in the mail. The box is found to contain two severed human ears. The police initially believe that Miss Cushing is simply the victim of a prank played by medical students and that the ears were cut off corpses. Holmes believes that the ears are evidence of a double murder and that Susan Cushing was not the intended recipient of the cardboard box.

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  • In the story, the police ask the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to help in the investigation of a strange case. A single middle-aged woman named Susan Cushing receives a cardboard box in the mail. The box is found to contain two severed human ears. The police initially believe that Miss Cushing is simply the victim of a prank played by medical students and that the ears were cut off corpses. Holmes believes that the ears are evidence of a double murder and that Susan Cushing was not the intended recipient of the cardboard box.
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  • In the story, the police ask the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to help in the investigation of a strange case. A single middle-aged woman named Susan Cushing receives a cardboard box in the mail. The box is found to contain two severed human ears. The police initially believe that Miss Cushing is simply the victim of a prank played by medical students and that the ears were cut off corpses. Holmes believes that the ears are evidence of a double murder and that Susan Cushing was not the intended recipient of the cardboard box. "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" was not included in the first British edition of the anthology The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published by George Newnes Ltd. in December 1893. It was included in the first American edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published by Harper in February 1894, but was removed from subsequent American editions of the anthology. The reasons for the removal of the story from the anthology are not clear but it is believed that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle requested that the story be removed because he considered it to be unsuitable for younger readers. "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" was included in the first American edition of the anthology His Last Bow, published in 1917. Today, it is usually included in editions of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes which are published in the United Kingdom and editions of His Last Bow which are published in the United States. A section which originally appeared in "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", in which Holmes appears to read Watson's mind by using a technique which Watson thought was impossible when he came across it in an Edgar Allan Poe story, was transferred to "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" in the first British edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The section does not have any bearing on the plot of either story. "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" has been adapted for radio and television.
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