The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes，中文譯名為《福爾摩斯憶錄》，這是一部充滿傳奇、冒險與智慧的偵探故事，它由英國著名偵探小說、“英國偵探小說之父”阿瑟?柯南?道爾編著。在充滿霧氣的倫敦貝街上，住着一位富有正義感的偵探福爾摩斯。他和他忠實的醫生朋友華生一起經受不了無數奇百怪的案子，製造許多經典的偵探故事。《福爾摩斯憶錄》便是其中的一部。該書被公認為世界偵探小說的經典之作，至今已被譯成多文字，曾經多次被改編成電影。書中所展現主人公福爾摩斯的傳奇故事伴隨一代又一代人的美麗童年、少年直至成年。
無論作為語言學習的課本，還是作為通俗的文學讀本，本書對當代中國讀者，特是青少年讀者將産生積極的影響。為使讀者能夠瞭解英文故事概況，進而提高閱讀速度和閱讀水平，在每章的開始部分增加中文導讀。
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The twelve stories (eleven 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"
* "The Musgrave Ritual"
* "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"
* "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"
* "The Resident Patient"
* "The Greek Interpreter"
* "The Naval Treaty"
* "The Final Problem"
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 U.S. 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 U.S. edition, and some sources[specify] state that the publishers believed the story was too scandalous for the American public.
As a result, this story was not republished in the U.S. 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, when the story was removed from the Memoirs, its opening pages, where Holmes emulates Dupin, were transferred to the beginning of "The Adventure of the Resident Patient". In some later U.S. editions of the Memoirs, which still omit "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", this transfer still appears.
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