The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Infobox Book |
name = The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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image_caption = Cover of "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
author = Arthur Conan Doyle
illustrator = Sydney Paget
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Sherlock Holmes
genre = Detective fiction short stories
publisher = George Newnes
release_date = 1894
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = viii, 279 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
followed_by = The Hound of the Baskervilles

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Contents

The twelve stories (11 in American editions) of the "Memoirs" are:
*"Silver Blaze"
*"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (this story is in "His Last Bow" in American editions of the canon)
*"The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
*"The Stockbroker's Clerk"
*"The "Gloria Scott"" (Holmes's first case, described to Watson)
*"The Musgrave Ritual" (another early case, told by Holmes to Watson)
*"The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"
*"The Adventure of the Crooked Man"
*"The Resident Patient"
*"The Greek Interpreter" (Mycroft appears for the first time)
*"The Naval Treaty"
*"The Final Problem" (Watson reports the death of Holmes)

The Cardboard Box

The first London edition of the "Memoirs" in 1894 did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," although all twelve stories had appeared in the "Strand Magazine". The first US edition "did" include the story, but it was very quickly replaced with a revised edition that omitted it.

The reasoning behind the suppression is unclear. In Britain the story was apparently removed at Doyle's request as it included adultery and so was unsuitable for younger readers. This may have also been the cause for the rapid removal of the story from the US edition, and some sourcesSpecify|date=September 2007 state that the publishers believed the story was too scandalous for the American public.

As a result, this story was not republished in the USA until many years later, when it was added to "His Last Bow". Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with "His Last Bow", while most British editions keep the story in its original place in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes".

Additionally, with the removal of the story several of its opening pages, where Holmes emulates Dupin, were shoved into the beginning of "The Adventure of the Resident Patient", and some restored versions of "The Cardboard Box" continue this removal.

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* [http://www1.webng.com/SherlockHolmesCases/ Sherlock Holmes Cases] A compilation of some of the most famous Sherlock Holmes cases. Original stories adapted from the Gutenberg project
* [http://ebookstore.adobe.com/store/product.asp?bookid=62 Free "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" ebook by Adobe]