Canon Discussion Post: The Cardboard Box

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Welcome back! Let's have some Sherlock Holmes canon discussion, shall we? What did you all think of The Cardboard Box? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and questions, which are behind the jump. Add your own in the comments!

Discussion about the Granada adaptation of The Cardboard Box is available in this week's Granada discussion post.

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Granada Discussion Post: The Cardboard Box

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Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's adaptation of The Cardboard Box. If you haven't seen this episode yet, you can find it at YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and DVD. Follow me behind the jump for my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!

Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post.

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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box: Violence and Violins

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Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Doctor John Watson
Summary: Holmes' thoughts during a pleasant lunch with Watson.
Warnings:  Spoilers for CARD.
Word Count: 60, plus the quote from the story that inspired this in italics.
Author's Notes:  60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.



CARD – Violence and Violins
We had a pleasant little meal together, during which Holmes would talk about nothing but violins…

I had hoped for a complex case of criminal interest that would make overheated ennui a distant memory, or a light-hearted prank that would make Watson smile. Instead, it was a matter of the most tawdry and disheartening domestic violence.

I did my best to give us both a pleasant lunch, to brace us for the ugliness sure to follow.

The Cardboard Box: More from the Mouse Hole - The Bogus Laundry Affair

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Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: More from the Mouse Hole - The Bogus Laundry Affair (part of The Ocelot Tales)
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Mr Holmes was easily able to demonstrate that the thieves were working under cover of providing a laundry service to several well known hotels; for no-one questioned their presence, or indeed wondered why their laundry was not changed.  And when Mr Aldridge assisted by hiding in one of the laundry baskets Inspector Lestrade was able to catch the organisers red-handed.

The Cardboard Box: Rule one

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Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: Rule one
Author: trillsabells
Rating: PG

She’d always liked sailors, with their dashing ways and grand adventures. Mother hadn’t approved of course. Said a sailor’s wife was passed around on board and had by a different man every night. That had sounded quite fun to her. But rule one had been never upset mother and she had always followed the rules; straight into spinsterhood. Unlike Mary.

The Cardboard Box: No Time

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Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: No Time
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I hated the victim-shaming in this canon story. There is no excuse for cold-blooded violence. None.


Mercy’s meagre hands trembled when she put down the report about Holmes’s latest solved case. “Of course they would blame a woman to be responsible for a man’s actions – his drinking, two murders, and the mutilation of corpses. This is the nineteenth century-”
She coughed, waving away the maid and her lunch tray. No time for that. No time whatsoever.