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That Little Square Box

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published December 1881
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

Mr. Hammond, traveling aboard a steamer, overhears two strangers talking about their mechanism that they are going to set in motion that evening, and assumes they mean a bomb. He is mistaken.

Notes

Non-speculative, with no innovative science in it.

Publications (12)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1881 London Society, December 1881 MAGAZINE
1914 The Captain of the Pole-Star Hodder & Stoughton Collection 120
1922 Tales of Pirates and Blue Water John Murray Collection 277
June 1929 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
October 1939 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
December 1940 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
December 1945 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection 422
March 1949 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
August 1951 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
November 1956 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
August 1960 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection 422
July 2016 Tales of Pirates and Blue Water Jazzybee Verlag Collection 127