![]() Doyle would not allow the story to be reprinted until 1917 when he relented and included it in His Last Bow. Whatever his true motivations, Doyle instructed Harpers to remove "The Cardboard Box" from the Memoirs when they reprinted the book, and revised "The Resident Patient" to include the (inoffensive) opening paragraph of the suppressed story. The Strand was not a boy's periodical, and Doyle did not write for a juvenile audience. ![]() Doyle evidently regretted the "illicit love affair" featured in the story, and remarked to a colleague that "a tale involving sex was out of place in a collection designed for boys." As Christopher Redmond and other literary scholars have observed, this was a strange cause for discomfort, as the erotic elements in the story are far from explicit and there are many other Sherlock Holmes adventures that feature murder, adultery, and mutilation. Hyde, this volume collects some of Holmes's most memorable cases, including "The Musgrave Ritual," "Silver Blaze," "The Crooked Man," and "The Final Problem." Unlike the British edition, published several weeks earlier, the first issue of the American edition includes “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,” a tale that violated Victorian sensibilities both for its violence and its sexual transgression. ![]() Illustrated with 27 plates by Sidney Paget and W.H. ![]() Near fine in illustrated cloth a superior copy. ![]()
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