{"product_id":"2940013087859","title":"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box","description":"In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental\u003cbr\u003equalities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as\u003cbr\u003epossible, to select those which presented the minimum of\u003cbr\u003esensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents.  It is,\u003cbr\u003ehowever, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensational\u003cbr\u003efrom the criminal, and a chronicler is left in the dilemma that he must\u003cbr\u003eeither sacrifice details which are essential to his statement and so\u003cbr\u003egive a false impression of the problem, or he must use matter which\u003cbr\u003echance, and not choice, has provided him with.  With this short preface\u003cbr\u003eI shall turn to my notes of what proved to be a strange, though a\u003cbr\u003epeculiarly terrible, chain of events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a blazing hot day in August.  Baker Street was like an oven, and\u003cbr\u003ethe glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across\u003cbr\u003ethe road was painful to the eye.  It was hard to believe that these\u003cbr\u003ewere the same walls which loomed so gloomily through the fogs of\u003cbr\u003ewinter.  Our blinds were half-drawn, and Holmes lay curled upon the\u003cbr\u003esofa, reading and re-reading a letter which he had received by the\u003cbr\u003emorning post.  For myself, my term of service in India had trained me\u003cbr\u003eto stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no\u003cbr\u003ehardship.  But the morning paper was uninteresting.  Parliament had\u003cbr\u003erisen. Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the\u003cbr\u003eNew Forest or the shingle of Southsea.  A depleted bank account had\u003cbr\u003ecaused me to postpone my holiday, and as to my companion, neither the\u003cbr\u003ecountry nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him.  He\u003cbr\u003eloved to lie in the very center of five millions of people, with his\u003cbr\u003efilaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every\u003cbr\u003elittle rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime.  Appreciation of nature\u003cbr\u003efound no place among his many gifts, and his only change was when he\u003cbr\u003eturned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his\u003cbr\u003ebrother of the country.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145662710000,"sku":"2940013087859","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013087859_p0.jpg?v=1763576857","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013087859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}